Manhood Revealed In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'

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Manhood Revealed
Thesis: Why is manhood such a powerful tool to use on Men? I think manhood is a tool that lady’s use to make guys do stupid stuff or gives them power over them. It also shows guys weaknesses and they will do almost anything when it comes to their manhood. Now when you threaten a guy about his manhood it shows you how far he will go to show you he still has it. In this Macbeth play, manhood is the key, because not only does manhood show weakness in this play but it also starts chaos and destroys people.

POV 1: In Act 1 of Macbeth it starts the beginning of manhood and starts controlling Macbeth. When it starts showing that Macbeth manhood is on the line is Act 1, scene 5 and line 15, Lady Macbeth tells her husband “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o th milk of human kindness”. Now when Lady Macbeth says this and threatens Macbeth manhood, Macbeth doesn’t want her to think he’s going soft. Now this is where Macbeth starts going crazy and does stupid stuff to keep he from looking soft. Now Act 1 is where manhood starts but now let’s start getting into the middle of it.

POV 2: When u start to get into Act 2 it starts happening more and more now. When Macbeth commits this murder of Duncan he starts to hallucinate and he did all of this because of Lady …show more content…

Now in act 4 Macbeth goes and seeks more prophecy from the witches. Now Macbeth doesn’t like Macduff leaving so he wants to kill everyone in the castle Macduff rules and now it’s not losing his manhood but Malcolm tells Macduff “Be comforted, let’s make us med’cines of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grieft”. When Malcolm says this, it’s not saying stuff about his manhood but now that Macduff has nothing to lose he’s mostly saying why not attack now because we both have something to Kill Macbeth. Act 4 shows somewhat of manhood but not like the last 3

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