Macbeth: Gender

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 5

milk of kindness

Answer 1

‘Yet do I fear thy nature/It is too full o’th milk of human kindness/to catch the nearest way’
- GENDER
- LNK take my milk for gall….
- LM monologue after M letter saying M is feminine and too kind and will not kill Duncan

LM

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 7

men children only

Answer 2

‘Bring forth men-children only,/For thy undaunted mettle should compose/Nothing but males’
- GENDER
- ruthless enough to be a man LNK end of the play

M

Question 3

Act 2 Scene 3

LM faints

Answer 3

‘Help me hence ho!/Lady Macbeth faints/(Macduff) Look to the lady’
- GENDER
- LM uses her feminity to distract people after the murder

LM

Question 4

Act 3 Scene 4

folly unman

Answer 4

‘What? Quite unmanned in folly?’
- GENDER
- straight after seeing Banquos ghost, LM tries to ask him if he is a man to snap him out of it

LM

Question 5

Act 2 Scene 2

father resembalnce

Answer 5

’ Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done’t. My husband?’
- GENDER, GUILT
- LM saying why she couldnt do it
- shows compassion, womanly
- LNK contrast heart so white

LM