“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”—a quote from Henry Kissinger, a German-born U.S. politician and diplomat. Lady Macbeth, the wife of Macbeth, is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most intriguing female characters—she is evil, seductive, aggressive, and witch-like—due to her contraceptive ways of body language, her cunning and deceptive skills to overpower Macbeth into the genocide of Duncan, and her voracious appetite for power.
Lady Macbeth entirely breaks the stereotype of women being graceful and benevolent in the first act. After Macbeth writes home telling of his murderous plans, Lady Macbeth became a very savage, vicious, bloodthirsty and power w