English Essay Macbeth

English Essay Macbeth

1. Response Focus: Masuculinity

   • Chosen Character : Lady Macbeth
     • Paragraph 1 Focus: Lady Macbeth Introduction
       • Entry represents her as seeming feminine when reading the letter however turns towards a more masculine view by removing these qualities.
         • Asking of the dark magics to "unsex her"
           • Soliloqy page 23 - Act one Scene 5
             • "unsex me here and fill me.. top full of direst cruelty!"
       • Presents status - her strong Masculine dominant views compared to M
         • When she plans the murder plot
           • "Forces him" to confine to her devious plans
           • Calling him weak and a coward for not deciding - belittling him
             • Page 25 Act one Scene 5 - "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."
               • "leave all the rest to me"
             • Act One Scene 7 - Page 29 convosation
               • "live a coward in thine own esteem"
               • "then you were a man"
     • Paragraph 2 Focus: Confrontation of The Kings Death
       • Presentation of her forcing macbeth into killing the king
         • Presented within Act 1 Scene 7
           • "coward" and calling him weak
       • Creator of plan - dominance
         • taking the daggers back to the kings room
           • Presents brave, emotionless side (dominance)
             • Typical controlling and masculine stereotypical traits
             • "to wear a heart so white"
           • Page 39, Act Two scene 2 "why did you bring these daggers.."
             • "give me the daggers. the sleeping dead are but pictures"
       • revisiting her feminine feelings of sympathy
         • Agaisnt traits of masculinity
           • Presented when relating Kings face to her fathers
             • Page 38, Act two Scene 2
               • "had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done it."
     • Paragraph 3 Focus: Descend into Madness
       • Presentation of loss of masculine qualities - back to qualities of feminity
         • showing her side of vulnerability and hopelessness
           • now fears the darkness
             • Page 93 - "she has light by her continually. 'Tis her command."
       • symbolism of going against stereotypical roles of the time, lead to her death (Karma)
         • Page 102 - "The Queen, My lord, is dead."
       • even though she asked of her "unsexed" feminine qualities, throughout she still kept them, and was overflowed in the end.
         • presented due to her sleepwalking
           • Washing of her hands in panic to remove the spots
             • Pg 94, describing of the night and what has happened
           • Act Five, Scene 1
             • "yet here's a spot."
             • "here's the smell of blood still. all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand." pg 94