Shakespeare present lady Macbeth and Macbeth relationship as there is a clear hierarchy towards their relationship, as Lady Macbeth emasculates and manipulates him to gain power, this shows her individualism behaviour in the relationship As this would be unusual in a Jacobean audience, as typically the man is dominant in the relationship, showing Jacobean era and power hierarchy, as she takes in the violent, powerful masculine qualities of the relationship when she says she would “dash’s the brains out” of her baby as she rejects feminine nurturing qualities a women was expect to have that era This suggests her dominance as she takes control of the planet, implying morality corruption and almost acting as an infection to Macbeth. The violent imagery of Dash Shakespeare construes Lady Macbeth's language this way to create a vivid image for the audience to show Lady Macbeth's internal evilness. This also presents Lady Macbeth's unchecked ambition as dangerous and contagious as they both have shared ambition that was ultimately created by Macbeth and therefore acts as a catalyst to be able to make the brains of the plan commit to this as he sends the letter to her to plant hope for the future resulting to There are ultimate dangers of unchecked ambition they both shared but ultimately collapses due to the unstable relationship and the power shift towards the end. Ultimately, Lady Macbeth challenges gender norms as she takes control in the relationship.
Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth at the end of the play as a character with the most transformative transformation. By the end, she sounds desperate and creates a sense of urgency because her desires for power ultimately leads to her downfall and her unstable shared ambition Because it has collapsed due to the power shift in the relationship ; Macbeth decides to take control towards the end of the play. This could be to the fact that maybe God has given Lady Macbeth consequences for her attacks on rejecting God's natural order as she rejects her natural gender to seek evil. The blood motif of “out damned spot” shows how the destructive of natural order and their shared unchecked ambition has infected Scotland as the weather and animals have been unholy due to the tyrannic rulers. Shakespeare has done this to show the consequence of her destructive nature, to fulfill her desires. The repetition of “out” mirrors Macbeth's psychological collapse and how they both want their pain to end and both realise that life is worthless without one another, and how their fates has been written by another person and realise it's too late to change and God will not forgive them for their sins as they have committed the ultimate sin. This later downfall constant with her in the past, making this ironic since she was powerful in the beginning and dominant of the relationship, but Macbeth has that power now as he dehumanises her when he says “Dearest Chuck” only seeing her fragile state. Therefore, Lady Macbeth's power is unstable, leading to the collapse of the fundamental relationship as she was in control, but was not in the right mental state. As a result, Macbeth takes control, this creates a power shift in the relationship towards the end of the play.
Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a character that takes control as the play progresses. He takes control in the plan and no longer needs Lady Macbeth as he disposes her like an object. This makes the relationship fit into the Jacobean ideal relationship. As this shows his glimpse of his true internal instincts of man as he challenges Lady Macbeth's emasculation. The imperative “I dare you all that may become a man” he is declaring his place, and he will not let his wife offend him, as this later foreshadows Macbeth's dominance of the relationship, as he challenges Lady Macbeth, making her feel petite and makes her have no voice, and declaims masculinity, showing how he suppresses morality to dispose her when the plan carries out. The noun "man" suggests how Lady Macbeth views masculinity as to be violent and cold-hearted, and she thinks Macbeth is too kind but Macbeth urges to fill that image and does so towards the end of the play and also dehumanises her as he says “be innocent of the knowledge” This is ironic because in the beginning, he wanted knowledge from her and now he excludes her and acts alone, which ultimately leads to the collapse of the relationship because Macbeth leads Lady Macbeth, especially in her vulnerable, weak state, leading to the fundamental relationship no longer existing.
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