I believe that Lady Macbeth's words to her husband most often express her dissatisfaction with him. She believes he is not strong enough, she is emasculating, making her husband feel he's not a real man. She often says she wished she were born a man, so that she could do everything her weak husband isn't capable of doing.
<span>In the excerpt from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan Ilyich uses the Caius allusion to deal with his impending death by employing logic even with his last moments in his life. He attempts to make sense of his death with logic alluded by Caius' analogy. </span>