 Jenijoy La Belle takes a slightly different view in her article , " A Strange <unk> : Lady Macbeth ’ s <unk> . " La Belle states that Lady Macbeth does not wish for just a move away from femininity ; she is asking the spirits to eliminate the basic biological characteristics of womanhood . The main biological characteristic that La Belle focuses on is menstruation . La Belle argues that by asking to be " <unk> [ ed ] " and crying out to spirits to “ make thick [ her ] blood / Stop up th ’ access and passage to remorse , ” Lady Macbeth asks for her menstrual cycle to stop . By having her menstrual cycle stop , Lady Macbeth hopes to stop any feelings of sensitivity and caring that is associated with females . She hopes to become like a man to stop any sense of remorse for the regicide . La Belle furthers her argument by connecting the stopping of the menstrual cycle with the persistent infanticide motifs in the play . La Belle gives examples of " the strangled babe " whose finger is thrown into the witches ’ cauldron ( 4 @.@ 1 @.@ 30 ) ; Macduff ’ s babes who are " savagely slaughter ’ d " ( 4 @.@ 3 @.@ 235 ) ; and the suckling babe with boneless gums whose brains Lady Macbeth would dash out ( 1 @.@ 7 @.@ 57 – 58 ) to argue that Lady Macbeth represents the ultimate anti @-@ mother : not only would she smash in a baby ’ s brains but she would go even further to stop her means of procreation altogether . 
