istic of Lady Macbeth that put her in alignment with the witches is that she offers to nurse the spirits from her own breasts. "Witches nursed their familiars from their 'marks,' considered as teats of diabolic nourishment" (Wills 80). When Lady Macbeth says, "Come to my woman's breasts / And take my milk for gall" (1.5.47-48), she was telling her familiars " . . . to take her milk as gall to nurse from her breast and find in her milk their sustaining poison" (Adelman 112). There is also another theory that she is telling her familiars to exchange her milk for gall. This is another example of Lady Macbeth's unsexing herself. This was " . . . imagining in effect that the spirits empty out the natural maternal fluid and replace it with the unnatural and poisonous one" (Adelman 112). She was taking her maternal gift and exchanging it for malice.The Weird Sisters and Lady Macbeth take on dominating roles in the play. Because of their domination, there is a role reversal in the sexes between them and Macbeth. The women take on a masculine role and use Macbeth as the female that is being controlled. Although the Weird Sisters and Lady Macbeth never actually meet and plan the destruction of Macbeth in the play, they do, unconsciously, work together to undo him. They demonstrate the power that a female has over a man, but they do it in different ways. "The witches work[ed] on Macbeth's image of himself as king; Lady Macbeth work[ed] on his image of himself as man" (Dusinberre 283). Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have an agreement that he will kill Duncan in order to raise Macbeth's political status. When Macbeth tries to get out of his agreement with Lady Macbeth, she challenges his courage and strength as a man when she says,I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me;I would, while it was smiling in my face,Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gumsAnd dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as youHave d...
