Macbeth Gender Roles

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Perhaps one of the strongest motifs in Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the of the differences between men and women. Lady Macbeth, one of the most noteworthy and ambitious female characters in all of Shakespeare’s works, breaks the common idea of a woman, but soon reverts back to it as a hiding spot to shield hide her masculine side. Macbeth, a mischievous male character

From Shakespeare’s Macbeth, genders are believed to be distinguishable by behavioral traits. Many of these themes still linger today, matching the book’s views of the false generalizations that males are ‘mighty’ and ‘macho’, and females are ‘fragile’ and ‘fainthearted’. Deborah Samuel of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute asserts “the world that Shakespeare has created in Macbeth