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Lady Macbeth’s first appearance in scene five would indeed support Malcolm’s description of her as fiend like because when she reads in her husband's letter of the witches' prediction she realises that Duncan must be killed for it to come true. She thinks that Macbeth deserves to be great, and should murder Duncan so that this can be so, but she believes that he is too noble and honest to do something so immoral: "Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o' th’ milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." When Lady Macbeth hears Duncan is coming to the castle her description of as “fiend like” becomes even more apt. Lady Macbeth is a loyal wife with ambitions for her husband.
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