Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are partners in crime. Although Lady Macbeth could not kill King Duncan as he slept because he reminded her of her father, she takes charge once Macbeth has committed the murder. She carries the bloodstained daggers back into the room, frames the guards by smearing blood on them, and tells Macbeth that a ‘little water clears us of this deed’. The murder of Duncan is a turning point in the play.
For much of the play, Lady Macbeth seems a stronger character than Macbeth himself, overturning traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity.
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