Ladyis definitely very
    interested in having her husband be king.  Once he begins his homicidal spree, she has strong
    feelings of guilt.
Ladybecomes very excited when she hears
    that Macbeth has been prophesized to be king.  She is ambitious, and wants him to have the
    biggest office.
Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,(45)
That no compunctious
visitings of natureShake my fell purpose nor keep peace between
The effect and it! (Act 1, Scene 5, p. 20)
 is
    interested in Macbeth coming into power at all costs.  When he falters, she pushes him.  She
    calls him a coward and tells him she has a plan, he just needs to follow it.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And
we'll not fail. (Act 1, Scene 5, p. 24)
Once Macbeth
    kills , she is still calling the shots.  She scolds him for not putting the daggers by the
    victims.  She insists that he play it up, and sound sincere.  They both do an excellent job
    acting surprised.
When Macbeth does not stop at killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth
    is annoyed.  She tries to stop the ball she started rolling, but Macbeth is no longer under her
    influence.  She becomes more and more guilt-ridden, until she has a mental break.
What need we fear who knows it,
when none can
call our power to account? Yet who wouldhave thought the old man to have had
so much blood in(35)him? (Act 5, Scene 1)
She eventually succumbs to grief and kills herself.
 
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