By this requisite, it is applicable to compare the duality of Macbeth and his wife’s actions to a common case within a court case handled by the American Judicial system. This analogy would support the fact that Macbeth, who is a fully autonomous party with the capability to make his own decisions, at fault for his own immoral actions, though Lady Macbeth would be considered an accomplice. In any case, Macbeth made his own conscious decision to become the kingly serial killer he is remembered as, and as the article “Unsexing Lady Macbeth” points out, it is unjustified to perpetuate the idea that women can only have two roles within these type of stories: the pure maiden who is completely innocent and the seductress who lures a character to his downfall. Such a tradition disallows women to operate in less binary character roles and invalidates the concept of Lady Macbeth herself (Thomas 2). Just as the Adam and Eve debacle is a perversion in which Eve is treated as a scapegoat for the fall of man, stating that the true villain of the story of Macbeth is Lady Macbeth would be a gross and misogynistic claim in
By this requisite, it is applicable to compare the duality of Macbeth and his wife’s actions to a common case within a court case handled by the American Judicial system. This analogy would support the fact that Macbeth, who is a fully autonomous party with the capability to make his own decisions, at fault for his own immoral actions, though Lady Macbeth would be considered an accomplice. In any case, Macbeth made his own conscious decision to become the kingly serial killer he is remembered as, and as the article “Unsexing Lady Macbeth” points out, it is unjustified to perpetuate the idea that women can only have two roles within these type of stories: the pure maiden who is completely innocent and the seductress who lures a character to his downfall. Such a tradition disallows women to operate in less binary character roles and invalidates the concept of Lady Macbeth herself (Thomas 2). Just as the Adam and Eve debacle is a perversion in which Eve is treated as a scapegoat for the fall of man, stating that the true villain of the story of Macbeth is Lady Macbeth would be a gross and misogynistic claim in