From the beginning of this play, Lady Macbeth has acted out a very firm and masculine role as the wife of Macbeth. Although this dear lady is indeed a woman, at times she shows the characteristics of a male. Acknowledging the fact that Lady Macbeth was a female, at times in the play she held the most man like features, for example, when she questions the manhood of Macbeth, “when you durst do it, then you were a man/and to be more that what you were, you would/be so much more the man”(1.7.56-58), and this event happens more than once. Lady Macbeth disrespects Macbeth with numerous lines making him seem more of the woman than her, “my hands are of your color, but I shame/to wear a heart so white”(2.2.82-83). She even wishes that she could be
