Lady Macbeth, through her soliloquy, is noted as a woman with an abnormally strong character. She is filled with ambition, with aggressiveness, and can even be considered crazy, because of how eager she is to set her husband in a path that will result in the King's death. Her character juxtaposes the soft and quiet personalities of women during Shakespeare's time, who listened to their husbands and did what they were asked. In Macbeth, the tables are turned. Macbeth is not sure whether to kill the king, due to several consequences which would be detrimental to his reputation and possibly his afterlife, but Lady Macbeth dismisses those worries as unnecessary blabber with a stern voice.
Gender roles seem to be switched through these characters. Lady Macbeth mentions that she is afraid of how her husband lives, that sweetness composes most of his actions, just like a woman, "It is too full o' the milk of human kindness..." Macbeth is practically living as his wife's servant, and the Lady is the one who gives orders. It seems as if Lady Macbeth wants to be King and own the crown far more than Macbeth would ever have.
