As she pushes her husband to commit regicide, she demonstrates that she must adopt masculine characteristics. Lady Macbeth seeks to permanently alter her physiological being in search of a male presence capable of masculine acts. As Dr. Johnson said: “The arguments by which Lay Macbeth convinces her husband to commit the murder provide evidence of Shakespeare's knowledge of human nature. It exhorts excellence, dignity and courage, a brilliant idea which has dazzled humanity from age to age... Courage is the distinguishing virtue of a soldier and the reproach of cowardice cannot be borne by any man since part of a woman without great impatience" She must struggle with the role assigned to her by society, in order for Lady Macbeth to carry out her plans, she feels she must pray to no longer be a woman "unsex me here". As her monologue unfolds, the intensity of the request is depicted, almost begging, to be stripped of feminine weakness and to establish a masculine determination. However, it can also be interpreted that she requests to be genderless and not to have to tolerate the limitations of either sex Royal Shakespeare Company suggests that "Lady Macbeth's desire to be asexual as well as the pattern of her behavior throughout the play"