Lady Macbeth proves to be a more manly character than her own husband Macbeth. She asks to be made cruel and not feminine to be able to kill Duncan. Unlike her husband, she has no second thoughts or guilt regarding killing an innocent man for a selfish reason.
Lady Macbeth defies the stereotype of a woman. A woman is expected to be kind, safe, gentle, and to take care of others. Lady Macbeth specifically asks for these qualities to be removed from her and to be replaced with cruelty. This is very unexpected of somebody with the title "lady". There is more than meets the eye when it comes to Lady Macbeth. She is a determined and intelligent leader in the murder of the king. Not only does she have desires to be wife to the thrown, but she knows how she would execute it. She is also capable of manipulating her husband through mocking him and making him question his manly hood. She is smart enough to know that questioning a man's masculinity is the best way to make his pride overcome is reason and gut.
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