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

man, who dares do more is none (Shakespeare 1.7. 41).’’ In this quote Shakespeare is illustrating that a real man that possesses gender appropriate values would commit murder. By believing that as a man, he should be entirely ready and able to commit a vicious crime, such as the murder of Duncan, she questions Macbeth's manhood and unequivocally attempts to manipulate him into action. In truth, Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth’s mind made up, by her assurance that they may do it safely by fixing the guilt upon Duncan's chamberlains. In such, her cold cruelty stands out, as she reoccuringly converts Macbeth to engage in the murder, portraying her as a manipulative enforcer using gender appropriations to advance her and her husband's political interests. In addition, she thoroughly uses her strengths in diverse ways, to capitalize on weaknesses of other characters. Firstly, Lady Macbeth, is abundantly evil, as portrayed in several occurrences. Her persuasion is inevitable, as she exploits Macbeth's loyalty to Duncan and turns it against him in order to achieve her desires. As Lady macbeth acts as Macbeth's superior while the murder occurs, she sets high ambitions for her husband, knowing that Macbeth has a lust for the throne. However, she fears that her husband would have trouble when attempting to murder Duncan because she sees macbeth as ; a ambitious lord desiring to be king, but a man that is too kind to do what it takes to murder Duncan (Shakespeare 1.5. 43). This thence illustrates that Lady Macbeth knows that her husband would never be able to perform such a task, as she decides to control the procedures of the murdering of Duncan. By demanding that cruelty contaminates her, she congregates everything that is evil inside her body in order to perform the evil deed. She does so, because during many parts of the story, Macbeth possesses uncertainty of whether it is righteous to take the life of such a great king in order to feed his hunger for power. By Macbeth doubting whether or not he should accept the murder of Duncan, he is always convinced by his wife that murdering Duncan is an appropriate manner to obtain hierarchy as king. Thus, as Lady Macbeth sees her husband's weaknesses, she uses them to harass him into killing Duncan. She persuasively questions Macbeth's love for her, his masculinity and his desire to be king.

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

Duncan.