A true picture of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, by Shakespeare

Looking through the scenes of the play and finding the differences in characters I will map the changes of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth . In the second scene of the play, Macbeth is praised for being loyal, brave and savage in battle by the sergeant and Ross. Here Macbeth's violence and killings are praised because they have preserved the rightful king. Duncan is grateful to Macbeth and says when the treacherous Thane of Cawdor is captured …

…says he cannot cure her. By this stage her character has changed from being a ruthless, cruel and evil person to being slightly 'innocent' losing through her madness the evil in her. She soon kills herself 'by self and violent hands'. This makes us slightly sympathetic with her, as we were with Macbeth. Macbeth does end up a butcher, but Lady Macbeth seems to change from a fiend to a mad and quite innocent woman.