In today's society, women are generally seen as figures who control men and make decisions for them. Women tend to take control of a man's actions and do what is best for him. Even though women may not realize it, the decisions they make for men could lead to harmful consequences for them. Women are controlling figures who cause men to abandon their morality which then leads to their own demise. In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth was a power-hungry woman who would do anything to gain control. “…Nature is more powerful than nurture, and a person's abilities are strictly limited and largely determined by his gifts at birth” (The Scientific Monthly 221). Lady Macbeth was born to be a powerful and controlling woman. He took on many masculine characteristics, because he craved power. If it weren't for manipulating Macbeth to commit the murder of King Duncan, she would have done it herself. Macbeth even thought it was a man's soul in a woman's body. “…Come, you spirits/ Who harbor mortal thoughts, undress me here/ And fill me from ...