This non-continuous, present perfect tense, used as a past particle, suggests that the connection she had with her father through the personal pronoun “he” continues to guide her. It also alludes that she may have once been comfortable with her gender identity, but since her father left, she isn’t able to fully conform to the idea of woman so perhaps,so could this be what we now know as the “Electra Complex.” This could also suggest that she believes there is a constant battle between the sexes - so in order to fulfil her plans, she has to use supernatural forces, with interrogatives that act as intensifiers, “unsex her here”. She is still weak when it comes to the actual deed itself and …show more content…
Based on the hegemonic and patriarchal expectations, as a woman, Wendy generally wouldn't have been shown this ‘manly’ outdoors equipment showing signs from the beginning as a threat to the castration of male masculinity. Similar to Lady Macbeth, this demonstrates Wendy’s masculine attributes which put her husband’s masculinity in imperilment. Wendy continues to demonstrate masculine qualities throughout the script . An example of when the roles are reversed is when Wendy is adjusting the heating and hears Jack screaming. Wendy leaves her masculine duties and runs to Jack, as he cries and whimpers-much like what a woman. In spite of that fact that it is clear that in this scene Wendy takes on the masculine role and Jack, the female role, Wendy never completely takes on the masculine role.
Furthermore, when Macduff discovers Duncan dead, Lady Macbeth enters, affected by the disturbance, and Macduff replies with a concern for her gentle and pure nature as a woman through the use of apostrophe, pre-modified noun phrases and interrogative and personal pronouns. This is apparent when he says:
“O gently lady, Tis not for you to hear what I can speak The repetition, in a woman’s ear, Would murder as it