Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

The Relationship Between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Loving, close, distant and uncaring are all words that can describe the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at some point in the play, Macbeth. At first they seem like a perfect couple, and slowly as time goes on, their marriage deteriorates. Throughout the play, Macbeth’s relationship with his wife changes until it is basically destroyed. At the beginning the two seem completely devoted to each other. …

…have died hereafter, / There would have been a time for such a word.” (V, 5,17-18) Cold words for a woman that meant so much to him at one time. At last, the relationship has dwindled down to nothing. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth could have been believed to be an ideal couple at the start of the play, and at the end they do not even speak to each other. Their crimes had driven them apart.