Shakespeare's Relationship In Macbeth

A profuse amount of relationships have problems regarding having a flow of trust and honesty between one another, and this is why one in three marriages end up with divorce. An example of this can be seen in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, where there’s a complete and utter deterioration of Macbeth’s relationship with his wife. This can be seen through how they interact in the beginning of the play, in the middle, and in the end. As the play progresses, their relationship gets progressively worse, although how implicit Shakespeare is regarding their partnership.
In the beginning of the play, Macbeth hears a prophecy foretold by the Three Witches, in which he’s told that he is destined to kill King Duncan in order to acquire the throne.
He says, “[s]he should have died hereafter. There would have been time for such a word” (5.5.17-18). By this, he means that she was inconveniencing him by dying so soon, and that she should have died later. After this, he says, “… [life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (5.5.26-28). This can lead the reader to infer that he was referencing Lady Macbeth and her life, and how her life had also signified nothing. In addition to this, the fact that Lady Macbeth took her own life says a lot about her destructive relationship with Macbeth, who wasn't even fazed when his “partner of greatness” died. She most likely took her own life because of how her relationship with Macbeth had been going downhill like an avalanche, and couldn't bear being in a relationship with that amount of toxicity. Additionally, in the next scene, Macbeth states, “[w]hy should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword?” (5.8.1-2). This basically means that he refuses to resort to killing himself like the defeated Roman generals used to. This is easily interpreted as a jab at how his wife gave up on their relationship and killed herself in defeat rather than working through their problems, and it hints at a possible abusive situation that Shakespeare didn’t introduce the reader to. Macbeth made his wife’s death seem insignificant and cowardly, instead of wondering what he did wrong that led her to make that