Lady Macbeth: “Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.
Stop up the access and passage to remorse”

In act 1, scene 5 Lady Macbeth presents a soliloquy alone in the basement after reading a letter from her husband. She uses a metaphor that says “Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse.” This is hard for modern readers to comprehend because they have the difficulty understanding the obstacle women had in Shakespeare’s era. Lady Macbeth believes she has the capability of performing the execution of Duncan. In Shakespeare time women were seen as fragile and weak but Lady Macbeth trusts herself to have enough courage and strength to achieve this murder. The only thing that stands in her way is her gender and will have to remove all feminine qualities such as remorse.