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Representation Of Women In Macbethan Time

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In Shakespearian time, people believed that, because women are the weaker sex, they are inferior to men. However, in Shakespeare's play “Macbeth” women were a portrayal of influential power that marks a significant change in Macbeth’s thoughts and actions. Why did Shakespeare give women, in his play, the power that drives the other sex to insanity, and feminizes a man by saying I fear thy [Macbeth’s] nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness”? The roles of women in Shakespearean times were very limited. Women at that time didn’t have the right to express their opinions, the right to inherit, and most of them were denied the chance to be schooled beyond the basics of reading and writing. People at that time forced women to be uneducated

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