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Portrayal Of Gender Roles In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

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Elizabethan culture influences the stereotypical portrayal of gender roles in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are characters who challenge and deviate from traditional masculine and feminine traits. The dominant of the two is stereotypically masculine due to one influencing the other's behaviour and place in the play.
Macbeth’s deviation from traditional gender roles begins after Lady Macbeth is introduced into the play, and his thirst for power progresses. Macbeth plays an honourable, great warrior and Thane of Glamis, a nobleman of Scotland. Macbeth becomes submissive to Lady Macbeth’s decisions when directing the plan to murder Duncan. During the Elizabethan era, men were seemingly more dominant and masculine as
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