Masculinity

Masculinity

1. emasculation of Macbeth

   • "When you were a man then you durst do it"
   • "too full o' the milk of human kindness"

2. Lady Macbeth

   • "Unsex me here"
   • "Take my milk for gall"
   • feels as though she can only help her husband if she is more masculine

3. stereotypical jacobean masculinity

   • bravery
   • emotionlessness
     • ignores by Lady Macbeth when he tries to voice his concerns
   • brutality
     • "till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps"

4. Macbeth reasserts his dominance throughout the play

   • "dearest partner of greatness"
     • "be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck"
       • completes Banquo's murder without her
         • she isn't mentioned in the play until her suicide