Categorias: Todos - stereotypes - desire - gender - ambition

por Sasikumar Shivani 1 ano atrás

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"Spirits that assist murderous thoughts, take away my womanhood and fill me from head to toe with cruelty" -Lady Macbeth Pg 31

A series of quotes from the characters Lady Macbeth, Malcolm, and Macduff highlight central themes in the narrative, including gender roles, ambition, and power. Lady Macbeth's plea to the spirits to strip her of feminine qualities and fill her with cruelty underscores her determination and willingness to abandon traditional gender roles to achieve her goals.

"Spirits that assist murderous thoughts, take away my womanhood and fill me from head to toe with cruelty" -Lady Macbeth Pg 31

Lady Macbeth cant get over the fact that she saw macbeth murder someone, and gone crazy

Spoken by Lady Macbeth to herself

"Your wives, your daughters, your young maids, your old woman could not fill up the chasm of my Lust" pg 148 act 4 scene 1

Malcolm is talking about Macbeth and how he is greedy and everything. Then he starts talking about women and no women can fullfill his desires.
pg 148 act 4 scene 1
Malcolm to Macduff

This quote is important because it is Lady Macbeth Talking to herself and about her womanhood

act 1 scene 3 pg 31

"I have never been with a woman, I have never lied, I barely care about the things I already own, let alone cover what belongs to other men." - Malcolm pg.151

This is spoken by Malcolm to Macduff
Macduff is trying to talk sense into malcolm and say he will never feel fullfilled with this mentality
Malcolm is going to be the next king so he is greedy and wants all the power he could get.He also wants to be loved by as many women.He is not happy about what he has.

"But if we fail" "We Fail" pg 41 act 1 scene 6 - Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

This quote is importsnt because it shows how lady macbeth is saying if he steps back he is no man
Lady macbeth is telling macbeth that he should not tak about failure

"oh gentle lady, my news is not fit for your ears.If I repeated it to you,it will kill you as soon as you heard it" -Macduff to lady Macbeth pg 68 scene 3

The news is about the royal master being murdered and macduff is giving her a warning befire telling her the news.
This represents gender roles because women are steriotypically thought to be soft and get emotional easily