Lady Macbeth Gender Analysis

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Macduff becomes angry and stops mourning and starts thinking about fighting Macbeth.
His masculine role returns and he is willing to fight to the death in order to bring justice to his family.

Many could argue that the character’s in this play strictly stick with their socially acceptable gender roles. They could say that Lady Macbeth was just simply “acting in the moment”, therefore her gender shouldn’t be questioned in that particular scene.This may be true, however people need to look deeper into the character and see what their actions really do show. Lady Macbeth is shouting to God to unsex her and is literally asking him to turn her into a man. In similar words, she wants to have masculine characteristics in order for her to continue

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