Question

In Shakespeare’s time, there were very definite ideas about how men and women differed. In Macbeth, Shakespeare suggests that violence is a more inherently male behavior.
Which incidents in the play help convey that idea?

Select each correct answer.

Lady Macbeth refuses to fight in the final battle to protect her husband, instead locking herself in her room at Dunsinane.

Lady Macduff suggests that her husband leave the country and find safety in England rather than fight Macbeth.

Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth she should have only male children because of her unusual strength and ambition.

Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to “unsex her” to make her more masculine so that she can go through with the plan to murder Duncan.

Answer 1

Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth she should have only male children because of her unusual strength and ambition.

Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to “unsex her” to make her more masculine so that she can go through with the plan to murder Duncan.

The play shows that males are inherently more violent than females through these two examples. Lady Macbeth wants her female nature to be stripped away so she can harden her heart and kill Duncan, and Macbeth hopes that she doesn't have daughters because her  nature is more masculine already.

Answer 2

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