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Gender Roles in Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth is used to emphasize gender roles
- Shakespeare uses her to defy against the usual expectations of a woman's roles in other plays and stories of this time period
Macbeth does not seem very manly to his wife.
"Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full of th' milk of kindness"
- Women are stereotypically supposed to be sweet, gentle, and loving creatures
- Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as a power seeking and conniving woman, she seems to be more masculine
"Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of the direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse...."
She convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan and that he is less of a man if he cannot, and if he won't kill her then she will to obtain her spot as queen
- This strays from the concept of women being softer, weaker humans by switching their roles.
Conclusion
- Lady Macbeth was willing to do anything to be queen
- Including removing her feminine qualities to avoid feeling remorse after she does what she needs to do to get what she wants
- Manipulator and power seeker; uses characteristics of a man and a woman
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