Macbeth Essay On Gender Roles

Gender Roles In various stories, even throughout life, characters and people have gender roles. It’s a basic concept of the idea of how men and women should act. With men, “They are expected to display attributes such as strength, power, competitiveness, and less openly display emotion and affection.” (Fawkner 194). Whereas women are to take on characteristics like being polite and nurturing. The thing is, just because these are the characteristics and personalities we are “supposed” to take on, it doesn’t mean that we can’t obtain the characteristic of the opposing gender. Perhaps taking on the role of the other gender could help us move through life more efficiently. Men and women may have different roles, but sometimes these said roles would benefit the person more if they were reversed with the other gender.

Lady Macbeth was Macbeth’s wife, and she was willing to do everything in her power to make sure Macbeth would be the next king. She took on this role because she deemed Macbeth as too kind. Since she saw that he would not be able to do what needed to be done to become king, she then had to become the power in the relationship. Power is associated with masculinity, but Lady Macbeth had to portray this to get what they wanted. She used this power to manipulate Macbeth into the dirty work that she knew he was not capable of doing on his own. “Lady Macbeth has a high rank in their relationship.” (Sorge 4). Without this high rank they would not have been able to pursue the mission of having Macbeth become king. In this situation, it benefited The Macbeth’s to have Lady Macbeth take on the masculine role for them to receive their accomplishment. If Macbeth had to take own his masculine role being the actual man and all, they had the chance for their whole plan to be compromised because that’s not what he had in