Character Analysis: Lady Macbeth
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2020
- Does Shakespeare present Lady Macbeth as subverting feminine stereotypes of the Jacobean era or conforming to them?
Sources used:
‘On The Character of Lady Macbeth, by Dr Emil Pfundheller, 1873
‘The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare’, Joan Larsen Klein
‘Women in Literature: Reading Through the Lens of Gender’, Elizabeth Klett
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I personally see lady Macbeth as a character who subverts her femininity ,denying the Jacobean stereotypes which would be placed upon her. However I find that in this play Shakespeare portrays dominant and powerful women as the catalysts of Macbeths demise, with lady Macbeth and the witches. Therefore Shakespeare condemns a society where women step out of their natural order and dominate over their husbands.
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Me too, I feel as though Shakespeare punishes Lady Macbeth for subverting the stereotypical roles of a Jacobean woman. Her madness and eventual death is a punishment for acting out of her confinements placed upon her by society. It's as if Shakespeare is attempting to make a point to the female audience to stay submissive and not affect the 'natural order' of things, as it will only lead to chaos- a subtle reminder to women of the patriarchal society that they were below men, anything else was unnatural and would be punishable- or at least this was Shakespeare's view. Nearing the end of the play, she is forced to conform and when she feels as though she can not (as her mental health has already declined) she commits suicide or so is implied. Her ultimate punishment for subverting the stereotype is madness, then death.
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Partially due to Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, I disagree with the protofeminist Shakespeare theory. I think Lady Macbeth is a character of negative subversion similar to the Witches because of the fact that her displaying such "masculine" traits is what was partially responsible for her own demise ( as she was too "weak" to survive her own partaking in the murder).
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I partially agree, I think throughout the play there is an unbalance of feminine and masculine traits in all characters and areas; I believe this is to blame for the demise of Lady Macbeths' ambition. Therefore, I see Shakespeares writing as a criticism of neither femininity nor masculinity - rather a lack of coordination and an understanding of traits.
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I think that Shakespeare does present Lady Macbeth as subverting feminine stereotypes of the Jacobean era, however, rather than using that to outline a protofeminist viewpoint, he intends to present Lady Macbeth's subversion as her hamartia or fatal flaw, and her eventual death is the consequence of her hamartia. Her and her relationship with Macbeth would have been a clear warning to the audience of what the consequences were of subverting the natural hierarchy of the relationship. Although a modern audience would see Lady Macbeth's dominance as progressive and beneficial to the Macbeths, Shakespeare's audience would have seen her dominance as disobedience and sickness.
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I always had a theory that Lady MacBeth was the one who called evil on to her and her husband both. I always thought that she summoned the dagger that MacBeth saw. I thought she was more powerful than the witches. It’s only after she dies that MacBeth falls. My English teacher and I argued on it for all 3 weeks we covered this topic in class. Lmao!
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although this is a very different interpretation which i am going to make a note of may i add! isnt macbeth's fall or downfall gradual since he became king and lady macbeth was no longer the helpmate as she began to detiriorate from guilt of her actions? for example macbeth began seeing banquos ghost and being consumed by everything around him where he says oh full of scorpions is my mind dear wife where he becomes weak paranoid and crazy before lady macbeth's demise.
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It's interesting to see this view of Lady Macbeth - I haven't ever really considered her role as 'helpmate', but it makes a lot of sense now that I look back at the rest of the play. This could also perhaps explain her cruel statement that she would 'dash the brains out' of a child that she was nursing. We see here a ruthless and shocking side to her, but perhaps she was saying this to encourage Macbeth to persue the murder, since we observe later on that she could be considered a motherly figure. She confesses that had Duncan not 'resembled my father as he slept I would have done it' and her sleepwalking scene directly follows the murder of Macduff's family. I see this, therefore, as LM hiding her true femininity to remain true to her role as 'wife', but as soon as she is dismissed from her role, the audience begin to see the true, caring, nurturing side to her.
Same. In lesson we just look at her going against feminine sterotypes.
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the reason why Lady Macbeth commits suicide offstage is the same reason why King Duncan was killed offstage. People did not know about creating the illusion of killing someone on stage so they sent everyone to die offstage or else they would physically have to kill a new King Duncan, a new Lady Macbeth, a new Banquo and so forth. It has nothing to do with the undermining of her power. What do you guys think? Does it make sense?
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@@_-_-_-_-__--_-_-_ if so, why did they undermine The King Duncan? My English teacher who use to stay in the UK and that has traveled to multiple countries and physically learnt about the history behind their places, told us that in this age, they did not know how to fake a death. It'll be part of the stage questions.
@@kiaradeagrela9898 It’s a bit late of a reply but both Banquo and Lady Macduff are killed on stage. Along with a plethora of characters from Shakespeare’s other plays.
love this video. i looked up lady macbeth becausw i was thinking exactly something mentioned in this video. in my opinion as a woman. lady macbeth is a woman stuck being a woman. like her husband she lusts for power but unlike him she had no power or agency. and its that lack of agency that corrupts her to that power so much. i think saying she is a character that existed only to aupport her husband whitewashes her too much. i think rather its more a situation of two snakes eating eachothers tails. macbeth uses his wife in a sense to propel himself towards murder while keeping himself almost innocent of his own actions because he was (he let himself be) manipulated while lady macbeth manipulates her husband to be powerful by proxy. her stripping herself of her own womanhood only adds onto my opinion of this. in the real world women will internalize toxic masculinity and apply it to ourselves. because we live in a world where this is the only way to win (if you are a man.) but these actions have consequences. because we are not men. we cannot play a mans game for men as men or as women. we arent men and women arent part of the game. lady macbeth ultimetly cant exist in this mans world as neither a man and no longer being fully woman. in a sense she had already commited suicide at the beggining of the play
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I see Lady Macbeth as a character that both appeals to modern ideas equality and women being able to have as much power as men and to the sexist ideas in the Jacobean era. I see Lady Macbeth as cautionairy character to women and men as it teaches the women should stick to their feminen roles and that men shouldnt listen to the ideas of their wives. I believe this is shown by Lady Macbeths mental breakdown and unimportant death as she dies off screen with no one to care for her.
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@@maanyaadil8482 What was the question??
@@puddleduck1405 it said how far do you agree with the statement "lady macbeth is a character than change throughout the play", and it was the extract from act 5 scene 1
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Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as subverting feminine stereotypes to evoke the idea to both a modern and contemporary audience that women were simply a possession of men and so were deprived of their capabilities. Additionally through the application of Freud's theory she could be percepted as having a conflicting mental state between her 'id' and 'superego' leading her to oppose the patriarchal society in order to achieve some sort of power. However contradictingly you could argue that she conforms to feminine stereotypes in order to conceal her true desires and achieve her duty as Macbeth's husband.
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I think LM is infact a witch herself and Shakespeare wrote about her being unnatural in order to please King James. Whether she is a witch or not, I think her character was so malevolant to please King James as it taught the audience a moral lesson aswell.
Could you argue that, because Lady Macbeth is introduced by speaking the words of a powerful man, this initially gives her a sense of being powerful?
you could argue anything so long as you can back it up, although I wouldn't recommend writing short points like this in an exam unless you can expand them into a full paragraph
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always have I held a soft spot for Lady Macbeth. After loss of her child - she most likely lost her ability to conceive. She then in turn gives up her femininity - I think a sacrifice in grief of Motherhood and wanting to grasp for herself and her husband a higher status. Maybe the supernatural who took their child was offering a gift to be grasped. I truly believe she meant Duncan to be the only murder on their way to greatness. After Duncan's murder - Macbeth deteriorates mentally and she sees it is her who assisted in this. He cannot stop what it is she fully opened the door too - and it breaks her. She then ends her life. I do not think she was inherently diabolical- I think she was broken by grief and then destroyed by what became of her role as both mother and wife.
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I think that, as an alternative interpretation, Lady Macbeth acting against the social norm causes chaos in the world. Shakespeare could be showing his female audience that acting as Lady Macbeth (and the witches) do will disturb the Great Chain of Being. The witches fuel Macbeth's ambition and Lady Macbeth persuades him to kill Duncan, therefore you could argue that these women, acting against their stereotypes, have caused the destruction in the play.
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@Old Acc But didn't Shakespeare kill the women in any of his plays who tried to be equal or superior to men?
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@@NG44 my question was on lady macbeth being manipulative if that helps
Does Lady Macbeth remind anyone else of Umbridge?
No not really
i honestly don't believe that shakespeare was proto-feminist. the fact that she goes to the length of altering her gender role (a taboo in the jaccobean era) to catalyse her husband's ambition portrays to me that she just wants to be a help mate for macbeth.
what adds to this point is the way that her power takes an instant decline the moment the murder is done and she can no longer be a help mate. notice how in scene 2 act 1 she monologues about seeing a facsimile of her father in duncan? that's an example of strong empathy which is a stereotypical womanly trait of the time.
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@Old Acc there’s not?
i dont think romeo and juliet, hamlet or otello is nearly as messed up and DEEP like Macbeth
5:23 why does Shakespeare have an earring on.
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in my opinion, lady Macbeth is fed up with having to be a woman that can't do anything men can and she feels that she has to change her "sex" /visual identity to be able to do things a man can do, hence she convinced Macbeth to commit the murder of Duncan, also because she could have thought that Macbeth isn't very manly and could feel jealous that Macbeth wasn't patronized for not being 'manly enough' for example "when you derst' do it, then you are a man" and "full o'th the milk of human kindness and how women were patronized for being masculine, but it could suggest that L.M is painting her insecurities on Macbeth, like how she feels ashamed at being a women, so she basically thinks that Macbeth is too weak to be a man and tries to make him more manly by belittling Macbeth and almost torturing him mentally, like how she and he witches basically opened up his fatal flaw, "vaulting ambition", although Macbeth says that it was only his "vaulting ambition" stirred him to kill Duncan, but it could suggest that, since he loved his wife at the time, he didn't want to admit that a woman has convinced him to commit regicide, especially his own wife.
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Thanks, I have a GCSE for Macbeth next Friday :)
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Does she tragic hero?
maybe she does playing psychopaths at their own game very well...but loses in the end since she couldnt go full psycho
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@@eggmccmuffin6298 ayyyy that's good! What was the question?
Lady Macbeth's portrayal makes me think that she is a Sadist, unless she has a darker story behind her that already made her this unfeeling to murder
I don't think she is unfeeling to murder at all. Especially in Act 5 Scene 1 with the sleepwalking scene. In that scene in particular, you get to see how much Duncan's murder affected her. Also, I don't think she wanted anyone else to die as Macbeth is the one that killed Banquo and all the other characters
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@@CrimeVaultUK yeah it was like "how does lady macbeth change throughout the play" hopefully it's that
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I beleive that Lady Macbeth is a ruthless bystander as she uplifts Macbeth while he is attacking innocent civilians. Furthermore i beleive that she is (to a jacobian audience) extremely horrid when she asks the spirits to fill her with demons.
Eventually when she cant bear with the guilt. بنمتسيبنتنتنيبتسيمكتمنتس مينتنفاكخسي زتسيبتتخافخيسب. تلمسين بمنتسبين س نيتبمكنيست بمننتسهفاخ لاقفهاخهتحخهقثخحهاخ رخزرهخبيزخهيتبلختبخهتسيخحل شهد خهدخهد. -هالخلطه أخ. حهخخها مهامها خلها-خبير هههه ختيه خت حخهتخهت هختسبخهاخهفخهسا يرلفخاسهتلحتسيبخهسبخهتخهبخحهسيا هزخها خحهارخحهيباخهاخسهبتسيخ هفسق خهالخهسافخهرخهسي خه ه خوخ تخمه تخ سيبيس
0:46 People: There weren't a lot of gay people before the late 20th century
Plays before the 1700's: