This is a reference both to the mental capacity required for sex and the negative effect of alcohol on maintaining an erection. This could mean they caroused until 3 AM or until their second round of sexual activity. The exchanges between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth define gender through action rather than describing physical sexuality. Although the witches are not attractive, the ritualistic chanting and witchcraft makes this scene resemble a large lesbian cult orgy. Although raping fits in the play, the play does not mention any raping.

Although not so nearly as well known as other Russian novelists of the 19 th century, Leskov was held in high esteem by Tolstoy and Chekhov. In a useful entry on Leskov, Wikipedia notes that although he was angry over social conditions in Czarist Russia, he thought that education rather than agrarian revolution was necessary. His debut novel No Way Out was a dark satire on a feckless socialist whose comrades were amoral crooks using political agitation for personal gain. The Russian social democratic press was outraged over the work and wrote articles charging the author with being a police agent.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth Literature is a mirrored image of different ideas and conditions of humanity. For example there are mad villains in cartoons and theatre for example the wicked step mother in the play Cinderella are not particularly serious. These people benefit in payment for their acts of crime.

More implications: childlessness forces Macbeth to go beyond his own nature and affects Lady Macbeth at her weak point. Macbeth has more conscience at the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth has no morality — they flip these traits at the end of the play; it is now Macbeth who is completely immoral and Lady Macbeth who is overcome by guilt. Their liberation from definition destroys them and paradoxically confines them. What is the effect of the play taking place mainly indoors? Duncan and Banquo refer to her as fair, kind, hostess just before the murder; all these preconceived stereotypes will be violated by the murder.