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  • Essay / Compare Measure For Measure and Macbeth - 1541

    As she pushes her husband to commit regicide, she demonstrates that she must adopt masculine characteristics. Lady Macbeth seeks to permanently alter her physiological being in search of a masculine presence capable of masculine acts. As Dr. Johnson said: “The arguments by which Lay Macbeth persuades her husband to commit murder are proof of Shakespeare's knowledge of human nature. It advocates excellence, dignity and courage, a brilliant idea which has dazzled humanity from age to age... Courage is the distinctive virtue of a soldier and the reproach of cowardice cannot be leveled by a man of the part of a woman without great impatience. » She must support With the role given to her by society, in order for Lady Macbeth to be able to carry out her plans, she believes that she must pray to no longer be a “de-sex me here” woman. As her monologue unfolds, the intensity of the demand, almost begging, to be stripped of feminine weakness and establish masculine resolve is depicted. However, it can also be interpreted that it asks to have no gender and not to have to tolerate the limitations of either sex. The Royal Shakespeare Company suggests that "Lady Macbeth's desire to be genderless as well as the pattern of her behavior throughout the play »