Masculinty

Question 1

Shakespeare’s views

Answer 1

• critical of the patriarch society that drives women to evil
• all powerful male image is damaging

Question 2

LM

Answer 2

Instead of asking for power she asks to be emasculated/ unsex me here
Being a man= power

Question 3

Macbeth

Answer 3

• tries to prove he is a man to LM
• end: fights to reclaim his lost masculinity
• ‘i dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none’

Question 4

Macduff + Malcolm

Answer 4

‘I must feel it like a man’- teaches Malcolm its importance which he demonstrates with siward (has learnt his lesson)—> James 1 how to behave as a king

Question 5

Witches

Answer 5

Try to gain Macbeth’s attention through prophecies. They hold no power otherwise and are shunned not only for being witches but for being women with no status