Devaluation Of The Feminine Principle In Lady Macbeth
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Gender roles play a huge role in Macbeth, and the proper gender principles in women are defined very clearly in the play just as the devaluation of these gender roles are as clearly defined. The natural role of women seem is to be a good supporting wife and care for the children. They're roles ....
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.... perhaps the biggest example of devaluation of the female gender role occurs in Lady Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth showed many features that attributed to her reversed gender role. Her " obdurate strength of will and masculine firmness give her ascendancy over her husband's faltering virtue".3 She was considered great because once she had it in her mind what she wanted her unflinching determination in getting it was superior to all others. "The magnitude of her resolution almost covers the ....
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