Analysis of Lady Macbeth in Act One

In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, the character of Lady Macbeth is a very decisive, controlling of her husband Macbeth, and ambitious woman during the course of the first act. One reason that Lady Macbeth is decisive is because she has made up her mind for her husband Macbeth to become King of Scotland. It does not matter to her how he attains the title, it only matters that he does. When Lady Macbeth realizes her husband's uncertainty, she wishes for the spirits to "unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the tow, top-full/of direst cruelty" (1.5.39-41). In other words, she wish…