Gender

Question 1

unsex me here

Answer 1

lady macbeth wants all her feminine traits to be stripped and to ‘take her milk for fall’ she wants all her nurturing feminine traits to be traded for masculine ‘thick blood’ traits

Question 2

it is too full of the milk of human kindness

Answer 2

lady macbeth is saying that macbeth is week. ‘milk’ is linked with women. she is implying macbeth is not manley enough

Question 3

i have no spur to prick

Answer 3

Lady Macbeth is the spur of Macbeths downfall into Duncan, this acts against his morals which shows how Lady Macbeths words have overtaken and persuaded him into murder

Question 4

how is gender displayed in the play

Answer 4

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are seen as on an equal level at the beginning of the play ‘partner of greatness’ but throughout the play it is shown she has more power than him which was not normal for the women in jackobean times. their relationship goes from being close to very distant as from what Macbeth had referred to Lady macbeth as