Examples Of Femininity In Macbeth

In Shakespeare's "Macbeth," we follow the story of Macbeth, a respectable soldier who slowly but surely has a fall from grace. In this play, we meet his wife, Lady Macbeth, a woman who believes that she needs to be'masculine' in order to commit violence. I disagree with her because I believe that men and women are both equally capable of committing horrible, unspeakable crimes. To start, let's discuss Lady Macbeth and her ideas about masculinity and femininity. On page 35 in Scene 5, Lady Macbeth exclaims, "Come, you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/ And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ of direst cruelty!.. Stop the access and passage of remorse!" In this piece, we see Lady Macbeth call upon the Evil Spirits to rid her of her weak
There is no reason for a woman to want to become a man to commit violence. Why do you need to be a member? Because men and women are equal. There is no better gender. So Lady Macbeth's notion that one has to 'be a man' in order to achieve violence, didn't sit right with me. Women and men can commit violent crimes on equal footing, just as they are both capable of achieving great things. While men do tend to be more aggressive than women, that doesn't mean that women can't be violent at all, or that they have to be'masculine' to be violent. Unfortunately, Lady Macbeth isn't the best example of this. In fact, upon hearing his wife's devious plotting, Macbeth tells her, "Bring forth men-children only/ For thy undaunted mettle should compose/ Nothing but males." Here we see Macbeth tell his wife she is better suited to raising sons since she is so devious. Again, this was written by Shakespeare in the early 17th century. So once again we see the idea that in order to be violent, a woman needs to be masculine or leave her femininity