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LADY MACBETH - Coggle Diagram
LADY MACBETH
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MASCULINITY
COME, YOU SPIRITS THAT TEND ON MORTAL THOUGHTS, UNSEX ME HERE” (1.5.40-41).
portrays how she is willing and wanting to give up her femininity and become a man, for the sake of the plot against King Duncan.
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“When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man” (1.7.49-51).n
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contradicts the accepted social hierarchy of Elizabethan Age where men were above women in the household.
“YOU DO UNBEND YOUR NOBLE STRENGTH, TO THINK SO BRAINSICKLY OF THINGS” (2.2.44-45
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portrays how Macbeth is degrading into the state of a weakling while Lady Macbeth rises in authority
switched roles, defying the normal trends of the day.
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white” (2.2.63-64).
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supposed to be a man who is brave and fearless, but cowers like an infant.
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“FIE, MY LORD, FIE! A SOLDIER AND AFEARD?
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reveals how, even after going insane, still holds her masculine demeanor. Even in her sleep she still dominates Macbeth and demotes him by calling him a coward
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