To gradually change your character over years of experience is beneficial, but a rapid deterioration of character through rash actions and extraordinary events is detrimental. In the play of Macbeth, Shakespeare creates one of his strongest and most memorable female characters; the play sees Lady Macbeth's disintegration from sanity to madness, enhanced by Shakespeare's inventive and powerful language and stagecraft. In the earlier scenes, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as ambitious and manipulative. In Act 1 Scene 5 …showed first 75 words of 1501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1501 total…the play from a formidable character, more ruthless than her husband, to one who is on the brink of insanity as the guilt of her deeds and the separation from her husband consume her. Shakespeare further enhances this dramatic change by altering Lady Macbeth's language in Act 5. He captivates and includes the audience with his use of stage craft. By starting with such a controversial dominant female character, her downfall is all the more dramatic.