gender

• "I dare do all that may become a man who dare do more is none"

  • cannot withstand the attack on his masculinity
  • sensitive and fragile
  • manhood is tied to honour
  • goes against natural order
• "Are you a man?"

  • mocking his masculinity
  • Not the stereotypical man he wanted to be
  • repress and rejected these feelings
• "boundless intemperance in nature is a tyranny"

  • men are encouraged to be tyrants
  • grants men unconditional power
• "may pour spirits in thine ear"

  • persuade him to do her bidding
  • she wants to posses Macbeth
  • link to witchcraft
• "from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty"

  • emotional or hormonal aspects of womanhood
  • early medicine believed in 4 humours
  • thick blood means cold heart
• "take my milk for gall you murdering ministers"

  • wants to get rid of her femininity
  • aligns with witchcraft
  • challenges the superiority of men