The main female character, Lady Macbeth, does not possess a real name, and neither does any of the other women. Instead, she is referred to as her husband’s name. This shows how little respect women were given in the play. They are seemingly under the control of their husbands and are not allowed to have their own opinions. Furthermore, Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to cast a spell on her and “unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full,/Of direst cruelty” (Shakespeare 1.5.31-33) so that she could be able to commit such a terrible deed without feeling guilty. Later on, her desperation to be equal to men and the imbalance of gender roles in the society she lived in, caused her to take her own life. She was
