Femininity In Macbeth

To start with, Lady Macbeth achieves her ambitions and advances her and her husband’s political interests. To begin, Lady Macbeth’s character forces others into action by demeaning them according to gender stereotypes. Lady Macbeth is demonstratively responsible for this, as she uses Macbeth's displays of femininity to force him into action. In actuality, when Macbeth shows reasonable doubt in his ability to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth is outraged. To illustrate this, as Macbeth criticizes the idea of killing a good king and subsequently believes that the killing should not proceed, Lady Macbeth forcefully demands him to kill by saying offensive slurs. She demonstrates these profanities and mean spirited comments perfectly, saying, “ prithee, peace, i dare so all that may become a

She persuasively questions him, using provocative and sadistic slurs, often offending Macbeth. She does this, because Macbeth wants to desperately prove his manhood, his love for his wife and his desire to become king and ruler of a nation. And so, in spite of her all her persuasion, Macbeth agrees to conduct the murder of duncan. Also, although Macbeth is unaware of his behaviour during the murder of Duncan, it is clearly Lady Macbeth who gives him the instructions. In consequence, by Lady Macbeth being portrayed heavily as the dominant one of the couple, Macbeth's actions are responses to her orders. Through this, it is evidently proven that if Lady Macbeth was absent from the play, the murder of Duncan would have not taken place. To conclude, despite Macbeth not needing any help coming up with the idea of murdering Duncan, it seems unlikely that he would have committed the murder without his wife’s powerful taunts and persuasions. And so, it is therefore Lady Macbeth’s overbearing ambition, rather than her husband’s, that ultimately propels the plot of the play by forcing Macbeth to murder