In a time of confusion and chaos spurred by the prophecies, Lady Macbeth saw a future, and her zealous ambition would not allow it to stray. When she saw inadequacy in her husband, she pulverized it promptly, beguiling, dissimulating, and manipulating him. Lady Macbeth’s persona is one filled with her ambitious needs, which at times were more fervent than those of her husband, and encompassed in hostile rhetoric, hidden with her duplicity. She begins her first lines with a plan of deceit, rooted not in her fear of her husband’s excess ambition, but rather his lack of it, saying “I fear thy nature;/ It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness” (1.5.15-16). Therefore the reader must ask themselves, to fortify Macbeth's ambitious desire, is
