The Relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

      The relationship that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had always directly affected each others decisions and actions. This relationship is a support block of the story. Lady Macbeth says,"O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear: This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said, Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws, and starts,-- Impostors to true fear,--would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authoriz'd by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all's done, You look but on a stool." Lady Macbeth loves her husband so dearly that she will lie to many noble guests to try to protect his secrets. She urges that he has a sickness and that sometimes he just has fits and that it will go away. We can understand that in her speech she is sad and uncomfortable but at the same time full of love not wanting her husband to give himself away. How is such a couple united and bonded but at the same time filled so much darkness. Lastly we see a relationship that has slowly drifted apart and one that is more of a deed then a show of affection. when the doctor tells Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is sick and his mood of calmness and uncaring   shows his evil. Macbeth says, "Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?" This shows that Macbeth is so overrun with greed that not even his demon infested wife cannot take his eyes away from his ambitions. Macbeth just tells the doctor to cure her and that is all. He does not talk to her and think much of her and mean while she has commited suicide but the evil in Macbeth has greated such a smog that it is barely even noticeable to him that the woman he once loved so dearly is now gone. This portrays the evil and darkness and how deep Macbeth has actually gone down the staircase of hell. The function of this foreshadows the collapsing of an empire. Not only has Macbeth have soldiers leave him but now his most loyal and trusted companion has also left and abandoned him, he should feel alone and ashamed but he is so clouded by evil that he still carries on and feels that he can rule Scotland and everything else that gets in his way.