Examples Of Masculinity In Macbeth

In the play of Macbeth, by Shakespeare, it is known to be consisted of four main theme that represent the play, they are supernatural, appearance and reality, and the two theme that shall be discuss for the topic, they are ambition, and masculinity, those two theme can be known to reflects and gave the inspiration to Shakespeare from the two era that shakespeare lives in and has experienced before writing this play, the inspiration mainly came from the Elizabethan era, ruled by Queen Elizabeth the first of England, but some of them also came from the Jacobean era, ruled by King James the first of England as it was three years into that era when the play was written.

The first theme that Shakespeare used to represent the two periods is ambition.

For such as in act 3, scene 1, “To be thus is nothing, but to be safety”, this quote display the ambition of rulers, such as how during Queen Elizabeth the first reign, she had executed her own cousin, Queen Mary of Scotland, this was because she had believed that due to Queen Mary being catholic, it is highly likely that the catholic will want Queen Mary to be put on the throne, to bring back the catholic church, but to do so, she will have to be killed, Queen Elizabeth, therefore she executed her as this was for her own good, like how macbeth stated that his violent actions are for his own good. In act 1, scene 3, “two truth are told As happy prologues to the swelling act Of th’imperial theme”, this was inspired by the two murder plot against the two rulers of the two era, Queen Elizabeth i, and King James i, they were called the babing plot and gunpowder plot, those two were held by both a

In act 1, scene 7, “ When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man”, this quotes tells the audience that lady macbeth is questioning Macbeth manhood, it remind present audience not only about the present, but this more of the past, due to view changing over time. This quotes reflects both the Elizabethan era, and Jacobean era, due to it still being in the period of time that England was still prioritizing men over women, and due to the fact that they believed that men were more stronger than women, they believed that men should not be ruled by emotion, rather ambition. In act 1 scene 5, “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. Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th' effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!", this quote tell us about how lady Macbeth want to be the man that her husband can’t be, this reflects how every now