Gender

• Masculinity in Macbeth: QUOTES

  "valour's minion"

  "valiant warrior"

  "be full o' the milk of human kindness"

  "Come, you spirits that tend on moral thoughts! Unsex me here.."

  "When you durst do it then you were a man"

  "I am a man again"

  "But I must also feel it as a man"

  "Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!"

  "Are you a man?"

  "What, quite unmann'd in folly"
• Reversed gender roles:

  ¬LM subverts traditional Jacobean gender roles as she emasculates her husband, going against gender expectations at the time of how she would've been expected to be the submissive one.
• Cowardness:

  ¬Macbeth can be viewed as craven as bravery is the essence of a man yet he fails to show this bravery after he has killed Duncan.
• Masculine:

  ¬Macbeth and Banquo are heroic warriors and both remain brave throughout the play.

  ¬bravery is the essence of being a man