In analyzing Shakespeare’s Macbeth, it is obvious that Shakespeare does not have a considerable amount of faith in conventional gender roles. His constant exaggeration of these roles with the hyper dominance of men and the submission of women in his plays illustrates the perceptions on gender that much was very much wrong in his society’s typical outlook of males and females. In this play, the main characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth symbolize the embodiment of human kind’s identity crisis in the battle of gender. Lady Macbeth’s ambition for her husband to be her perverted ideology of ‘masculine’ deteriorates both of their humanities. As a result of this, later on in the script, Lady Macbeth is driven to suicide when she discovers the truth
