Gender quotations✅

D t b o

Dashed the brains out

Dashed the brains out

• She would rather kill her own child than live through the shame of going back on her word, showing the lengths she would go to secure the crown

• Visceral imagery of “brains” shows brutality

i m a f i a a m

I must also feel it as a man

I must also feel it as a man

• Shows how Macduff believes that to be a man doesn't just mean unchained aggression, it also means tender emotion and vulnerability

t m m f g

Take my milk for gall

Take my milk for gall

• Gall is often associated with courage

• This means LM wants to replace milk, a nurturing and maternal noun, with one that will give her courage

• This shows how she is rejecting ideas of gender as it is associated with weakness

u m h

unsex me here

unsex me here

• She wants to be rid of her feminine compassion as she sees it as a weakness

• Imperative shows how she wants to control the supernatural

a y a m

Are you a man?

Are you a man?

• Rhetorical question emasculates Macbeth

• Monosyllabic words show she is direct and harsh when tempting him

• LM can manipulate Macbeth with her words, showing how she is similar to the witches

t f o t m o h k

Too full of the milk of human kindness

Too full of the milk of human kindness

• LM sees “milk”, a metaphor for motherhood and compassion, as a flaw

• Intensifier “too” shows how Macbeth’s excessive kindness is a weakness

g m t d

Give me the daggers

Give me the daggers

• Imperative

• Shows how LM has more power than Macbeth as she can order him around