Women have played a major role in the society. In different historical period, they usually are well figured out by the specific norms and the duties that are indicated by the society and the public, and the image or stereotype can become the basic structure of a female character in literature works and plays. In early modern English era, the women were also given certain responsibilities and their actions were indicated by the current social norms, and those elements also created many impressive women in great imaginary stories, such as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Ophelia in Hamlet by Shakespeare. The following would discuss their role in those tragedies by analyzing the characters and their practice significance.
Shakespeare 's treatment of Lady Macbeth of the tragedy While we mention Lady Macbeth, the character is usually remembered that the desires of the feminine gender for power are unnatural, and she is in emasculating terms to help in the showcasing off the power of the feminine power. With her desire to be unsexed, which is stated by herself:
“Come you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here;
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top full
Of direst cruelty!” (I.v.40)
Lady Macbeth reveals that even women have the desire to belong to the political world and combine it with their feminine nature. The aim is to put their desires and make them gender neutral, and she explain the unnaturalness of the situation. The play does not only show the tension of