Macbeth as a strong male
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- Created on: 10-01-18 18:51
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- How does Shakespeare present Macbeth as a strong male?
- The first half of the play
- Macbeth is presented as an admirable and heroic male at war
- In the first two acts, the title character, Macbeth, is not present
- In Act one Scene one, Macbeth is seen by the audience in a negative light through the use of pathetic fallacy 'thunder... lightning... fog... filthy air'
- Macbeth can also be interpreted as a coward (a trait of a weak male) as he was too weak to go back to the place of murder to return the daggers, so his wife, a female, had to do it for him. ' I am afraid to think of what i have done. Look on't again i dare not'
- Macbeth is also too weak to murder Banquo and Banquo's son himself and results in hiring murderers to do it for him.
- The second half of the play
- Macbeth is physically weak as he is murdered by Macduff. This is completely different from how he was physically strong in the war at the beginning of the play.
- However, Macbeth is mentally Strong as he continues to fight for his kingship until the end, thus being courageous.
- A male figure is supposed to protect their family, and just like Macduff, Macbeth fails to protect his wife as Lady Macduff commits suicide at the end of the play
- Macbeth is egotistical when he finds out that he cannot be murdered by a man born from a woman. It is only until Macduff announces that he has been born for c-section that he knows that he is about to get murdered
- Macbeth is physically weak as he is murdered by Macduff. This is completely different from how he was physically strong in the war at the beginning of the play.
- What is a 'strong male'?
- Power
- Physically strong. Macbeth is strong on the outside due to his power, but cowardly on the inside and morally ruined
- Title. 'Thane of Fife' 'Thane of Cawdor' 'King/Queen'
- Mentally strong. Macbeth begins to become mentally weak as he starts to have hallucinations of Banquo's ghost and the dagger
- Morally strong. Throughout the entire play, Macbeth has morally wrong, murderous thoughts towards Duncan, Banquo, Macduff' wife and Macduff's children
- The first half of the play
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