LOVE IS BLIND

Macbeth seems to think that his wife is only attempting to aid him, to turn things to his favor, and to make him a great and known man. He never once considers the idea that his lady is controlling him; he believes that she is really only attempting to bring him his well deserved honor more rapidly. Macbeth is a weak man. He constantly attempts to forget this crazy plan wondering what will happen if they fail, or how the people will react, or if people will assume it was he who committed the crime, but he is soon coaxed to forget these "irrational" and "cowardly" ideas. Lady Macbeth is quite crazy, irrational, and controlling; she forces her beloved husband to continue with the plan of murder. When he tries to chicken-out she begins to call him names, saying he is not a man, that he is a coward, and that she herself could do it. The audience and reader see Lady Macbeth as immoral and cruel because she is encouraging her husband to murder an innocent man in order to receive power. Lady Macbeth is a harm to Macbeth and those around her. Her murder plan, made to frame Duncan's officers, may also harm her own husband's reputation. In a sense she is also selfish, her husband will have the power, but she has the power to control him.