haha.. I know this is old. I should of been here a while ago. I do agree with mr. smart. guy. Andrew :roll: . But, ya.. I played Macbeth just like a couple of days ago for the teachers of our school. We did it as extra credit.
We got asked this same questions before we started doing rehearsal. I didn't answer, but the girl that did made the statement that she felt He was simply like any person who gets power and cannot control it.
but, I do think that Lady Macbeth really had not too much to do with it. The witches put it there that Macbeth would be king, they said it.. and so therefore it was almost as if Macbeth and his wife both wanted so bad for it to be. Kind of when the witches said that The forest would move before macbeth was killed. A play on words, or something. Then the men dressed as trees and moved in.
When they said :you will be king: Greed stepped in and took over. They wanted it then and there. I personally think anyone who could write a play like that, is amazing. Go go go william.