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Macbeth’s character is originally based off of the perfect caricature of a man; he is smitten with masculinity and believes it to be defined as cruelty. Because the first time we glimpse Macbeth is through the story of an awestruck soldier as someone who fought valiantly for the honor of his country and his king and cousin, Duncan, we assume he is powerful and brave. He was able to mow down his enemy, sever his body from his head, and plunk it down onto a stick. There is a point where bravery is cruelty is masculinity, and Macbeth is located there; Macbeth is a brave, strong, cruel man fresh off of the battle field, and we as the readers respect him. He writes to Lady Macbeth of his first encounter involving the weird sisters, and she
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My poem, Mournful Macbeth, tackles the topic of toxic masculinity that exists in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Macbeth’s ferocious masculinity is such an integral part of his character that the very mention of its lacking sends him spiralling, as shown through the five stages of grief Macbeth confronts in Mournful Macbeth. It focuses explicitly on Macbeth’s inner turmoil following Lady Macbeth’s questioning of his masculinity when she asks, “Are you a man?” (Macbeth 3.4.70). I chose lyric poetry because it provided an opportunity to explore the emotions of Macbeth in a deeply personal way.

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Throughout the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, manhood is a recurring theme and appears in almost every act. What it takes to be a man differs from person to person as the play progresses. What William Shakespeare believes about manhood is much different than what his characters think. About this topic, Robert Kimbrough says this,“...so long as one remains exclusively female, or exclusively male, that person will be constricted and confined, denied human growth.” While Shakespeare’s characters don’t believe this, the idea is prevalent in the devolution of Macbeth.

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Initially he portrays the socially accepted image of a man, but turns out to be a extremely power-hungry. The battle between conforming to society and being yourself is a very tough battle especially for Macbeth when he shows that he isn’t even as manly as his wife through not having a strong

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In this time a man’s masculinity was all that he had and for someone to question it would have almost forced the man to prove himself. In the twenty first century this same idea of being a masculine man still exist. If someone questions a man’s masculinity they most often seek to prove them wrong or prove that they are hyper masculine. In reality Macbeth had no choice to be aggressive because aggression and violence are what identified someone as being a true man, without these traits Macbeth would have been demasculinized. His pride, self-worth, and ambition would not allow that to happen, therefore, to prove himself as a man he killed his friends to meet his own self desires and ended up paying the price for his ambitious

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Well Lady Macbeth, who is dead set on having absolute power, disagrees with that. She convinces Macbeth to kill, to cover up the murders, and tries to convince him that these murders will get them to the top. Lady Macbeth calls upon the witches and states, “unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” (Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 lines 31 and 31). This shows that while in the pursuit of power, Lady Macbeth wanted it so much that she asked the witches to “unsex” her and make her more like man. But along with that you see the theme of gender roles are uncertain which ties into Lady Macbeth leading Macbeth in this pursuit of power, also giving him the ambition that she wants him to

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