The witches, through trickery and equivocation, plant the seeds of murder, and Lady Macbeth waters the seeds that helps them grow.
She more than convinces her husband, Macbeth, to kill the sleeping King Duncan (through her own mischievous brand of innuendo and tongue-lashing trickery), she even makes it easy for him to do so. She drugs the King's guards, leaves the door to the King's room open, and then lets Macbeth know (by ringing her little bell) when everything is ready for the deed to be done.
Lady Macbeth is, in legal terms, an accessory to murder.
After the murder, her role, in addition to being a very dissatisfied Queen of Scotland, is to try to calm and soothe her ever-more-edgy and sleepless husband. As successful as she was in prodding Macbeth and helping him do the murder, she is as unsuccessful in assuaging her husband's paranoiac fear and guilt-ridden, murderous intentions.
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