Analysis of Lady Macbeth Essay

When James Brown sings that this is a mans world, but it wouldnt be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl (Brown), this is true for both maam Macbeth and Bianca. In Shakespeares Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew, Lady Macbeth and Bianca are both fe manlike characters who struggle for power in a mans world, one rejects womanhood and the other exploits it.Lady Macbeth consciously attempts to reject her feminine sensibility and adopt a male mentality by calling upon dispatching spiritsThat tend on pestilent thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty make compendious my bloodStop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of temperamentShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it play along to my womans breasts,And take my milk for gall (Macbeth 1.5.41-49),only because she perceives that her decree equates feminine qualities with weakness. In this quote Lady Macbeth gives a vivid grasp of being stripped of her femininity in order to achieve manful qualities. She is asking for the spirits to take away her compassion and fear so no forces of goodness invade her conscience to stop her from proceeding to murder Duncan. Although she is very loyal, she rejects her subordinate role as wife to Macbeth. Lady Macbeth challenges her maintains manhood by being more aggressive than he is, taunting him, and suggesting, When you durst do it, then you were a man (Macbeth 1.7.55). Where Lady Macbeth rejects femininity and openly taunts in her relationship with Macbeth, Bianca manipulates men in a solely different way.Bianca is younger and praised daughter of Baptitsa Minola in The Taming of the Shrew. When reading, she is surrounded by fond dad, jealous sister, and suitors that are just begging for a piece of her. hardly because she isthe ideal 16th-century woman, appearing to be chaste, obedient, and dim, qualities her sister Kate certainly does not possess. Lucentio notes the court of Bianca in comparison with Kate when he says But in the others silence do I see/ Maids pocket-size behavior and sobriety (The Taming of the Shrew 1.1.71-72). Stating that in compare to her sister she is soothe and well behaved, just as she should be. But later on in the book it is revealed that she is just as deceptive, disobedient, and shrewish as she appeared sweet and silent in the beginning.