women

• women had a lack of agency ( influence / control )
• Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as attempting to have agency: control her status, husband and future
• Shakespeare may be suggesting women should stick to their social norms
• Shakespeare may be suggesting that Lady Macbeth's downfall comes from her unnatural attempt to have control over her husband and staus
• Women couldn't choose who they married, and couldn't own land /property
• Women were oftern controlled by their fathers before marriage and after marriage, they were controlled by their husband
• lady Macbeth subverts these expectations
• Women who subverted these expectations were seen as unnatural and witches
• Shakespeare could be saying that women who don't conform to expectations are unnatural and are doomed to suffer negative consequences
• subordinate - lower status then men
• dutiful - obedient , do what they are told
• nurturing- kind and mothering