Lady Macbeth believes she has what it takes to become a ruthless but powerful man. Lady Macbeth, explains that her husband is more of the woman than she is and that she has the abilities to be a deceitful but worthy king. In the text she says “ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe topful of direst cruelty!” [ Shakespeare 41-43]. She emphasizes the phrase “unsex me” as in her time women were never capable of being viewed as human beings who were able to be just as cruel and deceiving as men were. In her words, she thinks her husband is weak and that if it were up to her, killing the king to obtain the crown would be no problem at all for her. Since she is a woman, the idea of even doing so is absurd.