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...f these characters play a significant role in creating suspense. Through the character of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare intends to prove to an Elizabethan audience that a female can do anything. In Act one, Scene five of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is introduced to the audience reading a letter from Macbeth. In this letter Lady Macbeth learns of Macbeth's plan for kingship. (I, 5, 9-11) " "Hail, king that shalt / be!" This have I thought go to deliver thee, my / dearest partner in greatness." The response of Lady Macbeth's idea to queen ship is: (I, 5 , 40-41) "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, " . This quotation here proves to the audience that Lady Macbeth is an interesting character because she will stop at nothing to become queen, even if it is murder. (I, 5, 64-66) "Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't. He that's coming." In this conversation with Macbeth, the audience learns that Lady Macbeth will kill Duncan. This passage shows Lady Macbeth's is very serious in committing this murder without feeling any remorse. When the Elizabethan audience view the character's of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth they see that they are completely different. Macbeth thinks of evil, yet he doesn't act upon it; Lady Macbeth on the other hand thinks of evil and is willing to act upon it. In Act one, Scene seven, Macbeth decides not to go thorough with the plan of killing Duncan; Lady Macbeth's response to Macbeth is: (I, 7, 41-43) In "As thou art in desire? Wouldst though have that / Which ...