It is seen that in the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is the dominant one who seems to "wear the pants." Macbeth is very submissive and open to his wife's manipulations. However, after murdering Duncan, Macbeth becomes the masculine and dominant one. In a way, Macbeth resembles Dionysus in the Bacchae. In the Bacchae, Dionysus was effeminate and he was the passive one when he is compared to Pentheus. Similar to the play Macbeth, Dionysus becomes the masculine and dominant one in his relationship with Pentheus.
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The relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, acted onstage, typically depicts a weak man held in thrall to a ruthlessly cold woman, both showing little affection for each other or for anything except their own ambitious dreams. However, a careful examination of the text shows that Shakespeare characterizes their relationship as precipitously high both in affection and ambition, so that their fall is both resounding and terrifying, a mutual loss of equality in motive and emotion.
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