Gender Roles

Question 1

1:3 Ross
Gender roles
Macbeth great fighting and defence

Answer 1

“Came post to post, and everyone did bear/ Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defence/ and poured them down before him.”

Question 2

1:5 Lady Macbeth
Gender Roles

Asking for her women sentiments to be removed so she can commit regicide.
Thinks she can only commit regicide when her feminism is removed.

Answer 2

“That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/ and fill me from the crown to the tow topfull/ of direst cruelty; make thick my blood.”

Question 3

1:5 Lady Macbeth
Gender Roles
Turning her nurturing qualities into poisonous qualities.

Answer 3

“And take my milk for gall”

Question 4

1:7 Lady Macbeth
Gender Roles
Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth.

1) and live…
2) you would…
3) but screw…

Answer 4

“And live a coward in thine own esteem”
“You would/ be so much more the man”
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place/ And we will not fail”

Question 5

1:7 Lady Macbeth
Gender Roles
Lady Macbeth uses an analogy of a baby to link pity and violence, using the references to questions Macbeths loyalty to her and their word.

Answer 5

“I have given suck and know/ how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:/ I would, while it was smiling in my face/ Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/ and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn/ as you have done to this”

Question 6

2:2 Macbeth
Gender Role
Macbeth had killed Duncan
Macbeth feeling paranoid (reference to his mental decline)
Illuding to him not being masculine – Macbeth should be cool headed and unbothered about killing Duncan.

Answer 6

“I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise.”

Question 7

2:2 Lady Macbeth
Gender Roles
Macbeth is losing his marbles over the guilt but lady, Macbeth is currently cool headed and the one being ‘masculine’ and Macbeth is being ‘feminine’

Answer 7

“Wash this filthy witness from your hands”

Question 8

2:3 Lady Macbeth
Gender Roles
Ruthless doesn’t immediately feel guilty for their deed
Shows her immediate mental strength over Macbeth (swapped gender roles sort of)

Answer 8

“A little water washes us of this deed.”

Question 9

2:3 MacDuff
Gender Roles
How women are seen in society.
Don’t think they can tell Lady Macbeth as they think she cannot handle the news because of her gender – little do they know she was the mastermind.

Answer 9

“Repetition in a women’s ear”

Question 11

4:3 Malcom
Gender Roles
His immediate response is to get revenge and violence.

Answer 11

“Our great revenge/ To cure this deadly grief”

Question 12

4:3 Macduff
Gender Roles
Macduff is heartbroken by the news and is showing frustration and grief. He asks again in disbelief hoping it is not true that they are sure he slaughters all of his children and wife. He cant believe they are dead.

Answer 12

“O hell-kite.”
“All my pretty chicks and their dam”

Question 13

4:3 Malcom
Gender Roles
Traditional notion of how a man should handle this situation through violence and aggression.

Answer 13

“Dispute it like a man”

Question 14

4:3 MacDuff
Gender Roles
Challenging masculinity at the time – he needs time to process and weep his losses.
His family was his life – he needs to feel the grief before taking revenege.
Showing his feelings and remorse – taking the blame for their deaths.

1) but i must…
2) most…
3) they were all…
4) heaven…

Answer 14

“But I must also feel it as a man”
“most precious to me”
“they were all struck for thee…/ not for their demerits but for mine.”
“Heaven rest them now.”

Question 15

4:3 Malcom
Gender Roles
Use your anger to kill Macbeth.

Answer 15

“Let grief/ Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it.”

Question 16

4:3 MacDuff
gender role
Quote 1: reflects the expectation that women are associated with deception and emotional manipulation
Quote 2: contrasts this by showing the male expectation of engaging in physical combat and seeking justice through violence, highlighting traditional gender roles in the play.

Answer 16

“I could play the women with my eyes”

“Within my sword’s length set him. If he scapes,/ heaven forgive him too.”

Question 17

5:3 Macbeth
Gender Roles
Macbeths mind controls him. He knows the coming battle will make or break him. Will not back down.

Answer 17

“The mind I sway by and the heart I bear/ Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.”

Question 18

5:3 Macbeth
Gender Roles
Macbeth reflects on his ‘bleak’ life – you see Macbeth be vulnerable for the first time. He suggests he doesn’t have much going for him anymore so he will fight to his death in order to keep the little power he currently hold.

Answer 18

“I have lived long enough. My way of life/ Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf,/ And that which should accompany old age,/ As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ I must not look to have but in their stead/ curses”

Question 19

5:3 Macbeth
Gender Roles
Valiant fighter – courageous – give it one last go.

Masculinity - fearless

Answer 19

“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked”
“Hang those that talk of fear”

“I will not be afraid of death and bane”

Question 20

5:5 Macbeth
Gender Roles
Talking about the futility of life – life has no worth to him anymore – has nothing and doesn’t value life anymore.

Answer 20

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more. It is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.”

Question 21

5:5 Macbeth
Gender Roles
Macbeth has forgotten what fear feels like – His life has been full of horrors he is no longer afraid of.

Answer 21

“I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”

Question 22

5:8 Macbeth
Gender Roles
He will not kill himself – he will fight

Macbeth refuses to fight macbeth

Answer 22

“why should I play the Roman fool and die/ On mine own sword?”

“I’ll no fight with thee”

Question 23

5:8 Macduff
Gender Roles
Macduff emasculates Macbeth and then calls him out for being a tyrant – someone who rules out though fear – as he does not want to fight macduff (fear?)

Answer 23

“The yield the coward”

Question 24

5:8 Macbeth
Gender Roles
Shows that Macbeth is determined to face his fate with courage and refuses to surrender, even when he knows he is likely to lose. His willingness to fight to the end highlights his desire to maintain a sense of masculinity and honor, even in the face of certain death.

Answer 24

“I will not yield…Yet I will try the last. Before my body,/ I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,/ And damned be him that first cries ‘Hold, enough’”