How male/female relationships are portrayed in Macbeth and...

Male/female relationships are portrayed differently in the poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘Havisham’, ‘Cousin Kate’ and the play ‘Macbeth’. They all surround the themes of love, hate, jealousy, betrayal, guilt and obsession. However, the love versus hate theme is most dominant because all of the poems and the play have a melancholy mood, showing how the key characters have been hurt by love through their relationships and how afterwards, the way they feel has also been affected. Shakespeare’s characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are initially united by their mutual ambition for power and their relationship is strong. However, over time, they become haunted by the brutal deeds that they have carried out to achieve their aims. They are driven†¦show more content†¦This reveals to the audience that Lady Macbeth is determined to see Duncan murdered. She says she will do anything for Macbeth, and challenges him to do the same for her by murdering Duncan, against his will. In Act 3 Scene 2, after Macbeth has been crowned King of Scotland following the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth is no longer portrayed as powerful and dominant. Instead, Macbeth is now in control in their relationship. Lady Macbeth says to one of her servants, â€Å"Say to the king, I would attend his leisure for a few words,† instead of approaching him directly, suggesting that they are becoming more distant from each other. This shows the audience that Lady Macbeth recognises Macbeth’s power as king and is conscious that she should be more reverent towards him. In this scene, Lady Macbeth behaves less aggressively and more sensitively towards Macbeth’s feelings, like a traditional Jacobean wife would towards her husband. She says, â€Å"Gentle my lord, sleek oer your rugged looks; be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.† From this quote the audience can see that she is trying to calm and soothe Macbeth, suggesting that she feels guilty about convincing him to kill Duncan. She is shown as being quite caring, the opposite of her earlier personality. This makes the audience believe that although she was has been a very strong character, she is able to adjust the way she behaves according to the situation she is in, in this case Macbeth starting toShow MoreRelatedThe Evolution of the Role of Women in British and American Literature1808 Words   |  8 Pagesas inferior to men, but as time has progressed the idealistic views of how women perceive themselves has changed. In earlier literature women took the role of being th e â€Å"housewife† or the household caretaker for the family while the men provided for the family. Women were hardly mentioned in the workforce and always held a spot under their husband’s wing. Women were viewed as a calm and caring character in many stories, poems, and novels in the early time period of literature. During the early timeRead MoreTeaching Strategy in the Classroom2909 Words   |  12 Pagespaper, I will choose specific methods, and discuss how certain teachers used them effectively within the classroom. First, I will discuss how the modeling process was used to enhance student’s abilities to learn. Modeling is a process of teaching through demonstration. Second, I will discuss how mapping, a learning strategy that helps students understand relationships between ideas, was effectively applied in the classroom. I will then discuss how reinforcement, the use of stimulus’s to increase frequencyRead MoreCourtly Love and Mediieval Romance7340 Words   |  30 Pagesintroduced courtly love to the Count of Champagne’s Court. In the same period, it was expressed in poems written by troubadours such as William IX Duke of Aquitaine a patriarch of the troubadour poets, who was born in 1071 in Circa. Troubadour poets were mainly rich young men who were called minnesingers. They were composers and performers of old Occitan lyric poetry, which were romantically themed. The female troubadours were called trobairitz. The poetry composed were a learned combination of rhymes