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Gender themes in Macbeth - Coggle Diagram
Gender themes in Macbeth
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The contemporary audience would expect a woman to be obedient, subservient and supportive of her husband not bossy and controlling
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Macbeth's soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 7 possesses some masculine qualities eg the weighing up of options and rational thinking
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LM tries to prove her own masculinity by saying that she would rather kill her own baby as it was breast feeding and "dash the brains out" than give up on killing Duncan
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LM's murder plot is carefully structured and imitates the rational thinking of Macbeth's soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 7
Hints that LM isn't just power-hungry, manipulative and violent
Before the baby murdering threat, LM claims she has "given suck" (breast fed) which implies she has had a child
Later in the play, it becomes apparent that the couple have no children
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