Gender Roles

Question 1

Beards

Answer 1

‘You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me’,

Banquo

Question 2

Unsex

Answer 2

‘Unsex me here’,

Lady Macbeth

Question 3

Farther

Answer 3

‘Had he not resembled my father.. I had done’t’,

Lady Macbeth

Question 4

Deed

Answer 4

‘A little water clears us of this deed’,

Lady Macbeth

Question 5

Neptune

Answer 5

‘Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?’, Macbeth

Question 6

Bone

Answer 6

‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’,

Macbeth

Question 7

Season

Answer 7

‘You lack the season of all natures, sleep’,

Lady Macbeth

Question 8

Spot

Answer 8

‘Out damned spot’,

Lady Macbeth

Question 9

Ideas of Women.

Answer 9

Disobedient, guileless, weak-willed, prone to temptation and evil, disloyal, untrustworthy, deceitful, seductive and motivated by self-interest.

Question 10

Original Sin

Answer 10

The eating of the apple by Eve in the Bible, taken from the snake.

Question 11

Hybrid Gender

Answer 11

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth become hybrids taking ideas from both genders.

Question 12

Patriarchy

Answer 12

No women are alive by the end of the play.