Gender Roles In Lady Macbeth

Being in a certain gender do not mean that an individual has to fulfill the expectations and images that the society has set for those individuals. It means that both male and female can have some traits that their opposite gender has.In the story of Macbeth by Willam Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth is the female character who has masculine traits and a woman who is in charge in her relationship, that she even take charge on every plan that both her and Macbeth must do in order to fulfill their ambitions.Macbeth is the male character who has a lot female traits that even his wife have question his manliness and she fears that his female nature would get in the way on something that they both want to achieve.Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth portrays

She has the obtain some male traits which will be the driving force for the ambitions that she wants to fulfill for her husband“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full…”(1.5.40-49) In order to accomplish these ambitions she wants her female nature to turn into the nature of a man, so she could do the actions of murdering the king of Scotland because she knows that, her husband has a soft nature which resembles a woman nature. Lady Macbeth sees that the nature of a man should be more violent and brutal to all existence, she believe that having the personality traits of a man will give her power to commit the murder by herself in case of the failure of her husband and a man can do any misdeeds without conscience. Lady Macbeth does only have masculine traits she also, takes control of her marriage relationship by pushing and ordering Macbeth into doing the bad deeds whenever he starts doubting himself on whether he should kill the Duncan or not. “I dare do all that may become a man, Who dares do more, is none. What beast was’t then That made you break this enterprise to me…”(1.7.46-58)When Macbeth hesitated and he is about to back out on the plan of murdering Duncan, Lady Macbeth has overpowered him socially with her image about him not going to do the murdering and by questioning his manhood. Lady

Lady Macbeth has recognize that Macbeth has a kind nature, which somehow prevent him from killing Duncan. “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promis’d: yet do I fear thy nature,…” (1.5.15-20) Macbeth’s wife thinks that Macbeth’s kind nature and lack of ambition are his weaknesses, she also sees it as one of the female nature, despite how brave and honourable general he is at the eyes of the other people, which shows that he also posses some manly nature. In terms of committing a murder and killing Duncan, Macbeth always hesitates, doubt himself and changes his mind frequently, which is one of the traits that most women possess. “To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredience of our poison’d chalice…” (1.7.10-20) Macbeth has given himself some reasons to avoid doing the murder and he has already imagine on what will happen to them after the murder is committed, which shows how Macbeth uses his imagination to start doubting himself to tell himself the consequence that he and his wife will face after killing a very important person, his fears and doubt somehow shows how he still has conscience at killing one man and how he can think like a woman, even after being a general and killing thousands of people in the battlefield. Macbeth’s imagination, has become out of control after hallucinating the figure of his