What are your views on the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth?

The adage behind every successful man there is an ambitious woman comes to mind. Macbeth is quite content with his position, one of the leading men in the kingdom, a successful warrior, well respected by his peers. Lady Macbeth thinks he can be something more, the King. In a modern society the idea that the old man who is past his prime should give way to a younger one is taken for granted, in the Medieval period you had to step into dead men's shoes. Lady Macbeth thinks disposing of the old man is only right so that the ablest man in the Kingdom can rule. The problem for them both is that they are not as without conscience as they would like to be. Lady Macbeth, suspecting her husband's lack of resolve to kill his King and under his own roof in violation of the laws of both loyalty and hospitality, intends to do it herself, but in the end cannot and Macbeth performs the deed. Shakespeare as so often in his tragedies uses theme of destiny or the fates with the Three Witches prediction, Macbeth is in a sense driven along by his Fate even as they both struggle to keep their sanity as the logic of their actions plays out in the murder of Banquo's family. The supernatural in Shakespeare is always ambivalent, are the ghosts and the bleeding hand realities or the workings of a deranged mind? (Shakespeare is far better at this than Stephen King). This is an age when the idea that some were predestined to Damnation was held by members of the Calvinist tendency in the Church. Shakespeare emulates his Greek and Roman masters whose tragic heroes are bound on their road without escape, victims of the malice of the Gods. James VI and I is notorious in Scottish history, on his direct instigation " At least 3,837 people were accused of witchcraft. Many of these were tortured and up to 70% were put to death. " Education Scotland. The murder of the King and the witchcraft themes would have resonated with him as he suspected a diabolical plot to kill his Queen on her journey to Scotland, and other devilish plots against himself. Although written before James' accession to the English throne the evidence is it was written to be performed before him.

Well while Macbeth is going through disloyalty to others and huge stress, he always remains loyal to his wife. And while she definitely led him on when he didn't want to murder Duncan, she also remained supportive to him throughout. So actually they had quite a good relationship LOL.