Gender Injustice In Shakespeare's Macbeth

The tiny endocrinological parts called glands and homones constitute the persona, personality and psyche of the mortals. Besides, such natural factors which are always at play, the macroscopic role of the society and the social configurations of the persons also have some roles to play for the ‘normalcy’ of behaviour of any person – be he or she an ordinary person or a king/ queen. By all indicators Mr and Mrs Macbeth do not behave as normal souls, especially if we scan minutely and microscopically their conjugal behaviour; they do not seem to have any physical contact with each other; though amorous or carnal relationships are not tabooed or forbidden in Shakespeare’s plays; rather they are very much spectacular and quite frequent in his plays.

In attempting to implement her dreams of Scottish queendom she was ready to forge her gender hierarchy into which she was born. The total shift of her psyche brought about traits of gender-inversion that marks her marriage accompanying and implying the necessary demands or acts of male-female conjugal duo. In fact, her explicit bombardment of her husband; hesitant Macbeth in the words of “too full o’the milk of human Kindness” for their conjoined purposes of enjoying royal power; she was in favour of giving up loyalty to the elderly poor old King Duncan and substitute all traditional prudish values to fulfil their ambitions. According to her, just being a dutiful, successful warrior he had turned into a ‘milquetoast’ [3] sexuality and Gender are very important themes in Shakespeare’s plays. They are used, at times, as either a tool of manipulation, a form of propaganda or sometimes both. During the time and spaces of Shakespeare there was a social construct of gender and sexuality norms as there are today. There was a hierarchy of sexes and each had their own specified role in society. Obviously men were to be only masculine; they were / are not to be ruled by emotion, passion. And they were / are supposed to be too strong in

Bradley in his treatise on ‘Shakespearean tragedy’ remarked quite decisively that “ Macbeth had no children” in a special note (EE) of his book (pp 407-410). This could be attributed to the infertility aspect and syndrome of Lady Macbeth. But Julie Barmazel [9] (2015), decisively deduced the conclusion that for any reproductive problems of the couple might have lies squarely (p121) with Macbeth and this despite the dominant early modern belief that “barrenness was the fault of the woman”. This was the voice of the male-dominated society with all the misogynistic biases and / or prejudices. The ‘queer’dom in the era of early modern period was limited to only five alphabets LGBTQ. In the 21st century the list was lengthened by incorporation of a few new discoveries in the gender-science. This gave rise to the inclusion of two other terms ‘Intersex’ (I) ‘Asexuality’ [A]. The complete list upto new is LGBTQIA. [10] David M Halperin defines “Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. So why not have it refer to (straight cis) Kinky people, too ?” [11] At the beginning of the seventh scene of the first Act, Macbeth copes with an ontological