Since the beginning of time, humanity has discovered a way to achieve its goals successfully or unsuccessfully. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare demonstrates the struggles of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth as they try to achieve their goals by creating ambition and committing sins that neither of them were ready for. Ultimately, the real argument is whether they both thought the plan through to achieve their desires or whether Lady Macbeth and Macbeth simply followed their instincts as incapable leaders did. Throughout the play, the central theme presented is guilt, as guilt is the result of both ambitious ambition and a continuing lust for power. As Lady Macbeth's confidence begins to falter, the result of her ambitious ambition, guilt, is demonstrated through the figurative use of blood. At the start of Act 5, we see the Gentlewomen and the Doctor discussing Lady Macbeth's strange behavior. When suddenly Lady Macbeth comes on stage, while she is sleeping, and complains of the endless blood on her hands: “Here comes the smell of blood again. All the perfumes of Ar...