Macbeth-+Are+you+a+man?+Some+interesting+facts+from+the+play

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= = =** Are you a Man: **= = = =**As you go through the play, look for the repeated theme of "What is a __real__ man?" Like nowadays, there is no consensus.**= =**Macduff leaves his wife and children in danger while he goes (as everybody must realize) to plot against Macbeth with Malcolm and the English. Lots of people talk about Lady Macbeth being "unnatural". but Lady Macduff complains about her husband leaving his family for the sake of his country as being "unnatural" (he lacks "the natural touch") and his unmanly flight against "against all reason." For her, he's dead, or less of a man than a wren is. What do you make of this?**=
 * =**Lady Macbeth, misogynist, wants to lose her femininity so she can be cold-blooded and commit murder like a man does.**=
 * =**Macbeth, having second thoughts, tells his wife that it's unmanly to murder your benefactor while he is asleep. Lady Macbeth gets abusive and tells him this will make him more of a man.**=
 * =**Macbeth flatters his wife, saying she has such "undaunted mettle" that she won't have any baby girls, only baby boys.**=
 * =**Macbeth, perhaps having learned from his wife, gets two men to commit his murder by insulting their masculinity.**=
 * =**Malcolm tells Macduff -- who has just learned about the murder of his family -- to bear his sorrow like a man. Macduff replies he must also feel it as a man does, i.e., he IS a man because he has feelings.**=
 * =**Siward's son becomes a man in his father's eyes the day he falls in battle**=