Gender Roles

Question 2

my dearest partner of greatness

Answer 2

dearest-term of endaerment, shows that they have a bond

Partner- L Macbeth sees them as equals, which breaks the rules of Jacobean era

Greatness - Refrences their powerful ambition and foreshadows their achivement ( killing Duncan)

Question 3

Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness

Answer 3

L Macbeth thinks that Macbeth is too innocent and kind to commit such a sin and attacks his manliness

Milk- symbolizes innocence and purity, is used to raise babies

L Macbeth views kindness as a weakness, which is ironic
-Jacobean women were meant to be ……

Question 4

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty

Answer 4

Imperative verbs - shows her controlling nature and how she demands Satan, showing that she might be realeted to supernatrul

unsex - Asks to remove her sex, a weakness and sees her femminity as her main obstacle = limited by her femmeniity

Question 5

Stop up the passage to remorse

Answer 5

Shows that L Macbeth does have a conscience and “womanly” traits, but views them as a weakness

Question 6

And take my milk for gall you murd’ring ministers

Answer 6

Exchnages milk for poision = innocence purity - evil

Alliteration of M - adds pressure

Question 7

We will proceed no further in this buisness

Question 8

I dare do all that may become a man

Question 9

When you durst do it, then you were a man

Question 10

I have given suck and how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: i would, while it was smiling in my face , have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had i sworm as you have done this.

Question 11

Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen