Sunday, November 29, 2015

What are specific examples (quotes) of poetic justice, destiny versus free will, and gender roles and nature "out of order" in Macbeth?I really...

Quote 1, Lady Macbeth "


Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be


What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;


It is too full o' the milk of human kindness


To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;


Art not without ambition, but without


The illness should attend it"



This quote shows of Lady Macbeth questioning the manly and brave qualities of MacBeth by telling him that she is more brave and manly than him, which is an insult to his sexuality.



Quote 2,


 Lady Macbeth "Come, you spirits


That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,


And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full


Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood,"



This Quote is related to gender because Lady Macbeth wishes to "Unsex" herself. "Unsex" in this context, refers to Lady Macbeth ridding herself of feminie qualities such as being able to carry and nurture a child and to change her breast "milk" for poison, and become more of a emotionless cruel person. Again, she says this to insult him and make him more manly.



Quote 3, Banquo  "You should be women,


And yet your beards forbid me to interpret


That you are so,"



Banquo is confused as to the gender of the witches and says that the witches are too masculine to be women. In Banquo's time, the ideal women was quiet, beautiful and submissive, all of which the witches were not.



Quote 4 Lady MacBeth "


LADY MACBETH “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 pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums. And dash'd the brains out had I so sworn as you Have done to this.”


Lady Macbeth browbeats his husband by creating cruel and violent imagery to make Macbeth more cruel.


Quote 5 Quote 5 MacDuff "He has no children. All my pretty ones?


Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?


What, all my pretty chickens and their dam


At one fell swoop?


MALCOLM


Dispute it like a man.


MACDUFF


I shall do so,


But I must also feel it as a man.


I cannot but remember such things were


That were most precious to me."



After MacDuff finds out that his family has been slaughtered, Malcolm says that he should fight and stand up for himself like a man should, or in other words he insists him to kill Macbeth.

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