Lady Macbeth is the most interesting and complex character in the play. She is, in fact, the point on which the action pivots: without her there is no play.

Lady Macbeth is the most interesting and complex character in the play. She is, in fact, the point on which the action pivots: without her there is no play. Macbeth's most interesting and complex character is most certainly, as the question states, Lady Macbeth. The purpose of this essay is to describe Lady Macbeth's role in the play and discuss why this makes her the most fascinating character. Her evil doings are the main reasons …

…Lady Macbeth finds strength to lure Macbeth to murder King Duncan and to commit the murder herself. As the play progresses, her apparent strength diminishes as she fights her guilty conscience. Lady Macbeth's attempts to suppress her conscience fail and at the end she chooses death because she can no longer bear the torments of her conscience. In conclusion Lady Macbeth is the most interesting and complex character and without her there is no play.