Lady Macbeth's responsibility for her husband's actions To answer this question I will have to evaluate Lady Macbeth's character throughout the play and Macbeth's attitude towards of his wife. I think Macbeth's attitude towards his wife is very important to find out how he is influenced by her and how much responsibility he has for his actions. Lady Macbeth is of royal blood and has brought a lot of extra wealth and power to Macbeth. She is used to more power than many other women of her time, she has had the opportunity to gain a lot of power and freedom - or is this the hat she uses Macbeth for? But I think Lady Macbeth's relationship with her husband is strong. They're in love and happy, but I guess there are a lot of theories about who "wears the pants" in their relationship. When we first meet Lady Macbeth, she is reading in the letter about her husband's encounters with witches and their predictions (glamis, cawdor, and kings). . I think the witches in the play are there to advance the plot and in their first appearance they expose the main plots of the play. Lady Macbeth, if she were a lady of little intelligence, then this simple witch's giggle would be cast aside as a petty fantasy, but Lady Macbeth's mind works differently; he can see the potential in these predictions and "plot" ideas and quickly tries to formulate a plan to bring one to fruition. But after finishing the letter she expresses her doubts about whether her husband could achieve the goals set by the witches. “I fear your nature, it is too full of the milk of humanity…though you would not fake it.” With this she doubts her husband's dedication to the possibility of the prediction becoming... half of the paper. .....h sees a short path stained with blood. Macbeth can choose what he wants to do but his wife is there to push him in the wrong but faster direction. If Lady Macbeth gets her way, she is the Queen and has achieved her goal much faster than Macbeth could bear. I think Lady Macbeth encourages her husband for her own personal gain. Macbeth ultimately chose to do what he wanted and has as much responsibility for his actions as his wife, obviously with the taste of Duncan's blood still fresh he killed his partner to achieve his goal. At that point he took all the blame. Lady Macbeth planted a sprout that she had been nurturing up to that point and took a backseat, on its own it thrived but when Lady Macbeth left completely it was overtaken. To make his kingdom great he needed his wife. He needed her help to reach a point, but then he went down his evil path.