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Lady Macbeth changes Macbeth’s values and priorities throughout the play, as a result he becomes the most ambitious man in this tragedy. As Macbeth becomes power-hungry, he uses blood to fulfill his ambition, which makes him more zealous so he must use more blood. Once Macbeth and his spouse realize that he can be king, Lady Macbeth persuades him to murder the current king. Lady Macbeth devises the plot so that the only action Macbeth needs to do is kill, "Hark! I laid their daggers ready;/ He could not miss 'em." (2.2. 12-13). As Lady Macbeth rambles about the situation, she nervously awaits her husband’s arrival back from the assassination. With the word 'hark' she sounds flabbergasted. The reader gains understanding from the imagery of why Lady Macbeth is nervous. If Macbeth becomes more ambitious by killing, then soon he will start to be addicted to manslaughter and to blood. Since he executed the king and obtained more power, if he continues eliminating important people, his ambition will be fulfilled by blood, and the cycle will persist. Before he actually commits the crime, he questions his motives, and debates whether this is the right deed to do, "Is this a dagger which I see before me,/The hand toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee." (2.1.34-35). The foggy vision for Macbeth is explicit for the readers, because the text allows the reader to see Macbeth’s uncertainty. To kill or not to kill, that is Macbeth’s dilema. Although Lady Macbeth convinced Macbeth to kill the king, she subsequently becomes apprehensive about the murder. On the other hand, Macbeth becomes more certain and as a result more obsessed with the power that the massacre provides to him. The characters' mind sets changes. Macbeth fulfills his wife's original wish, and then Lady Macbeth assumes the traditional gender role of women, and observes his schemes from afar. Macbeth kills people to satisfy his ambition, his zealousness grows from the blood, it then takes more blood to satisfy his out of control addiction.