"Unsex me here, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty".
Lady MacBeth is intense. In saying this quote, "Unsex me here, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty", she is asking for every remorseful, ladylike, guilty bone in her body to be removed and be replaced with cruelty, from her 'crown to her toes'. She is trying to prove she is masculine enough to kill Duncan, and is asking to be "unsexed", to be removed of all her feminine qualities, because stereotypically, girls cannot be cunning or strong, girls cannot be cruel, no, the only thing girls can do is sit pretty and make their men look good, especially in that time. Lady MacBeth knows that she is more than this, and all though she is a little bit of a nutjob sadist (for lack of better words), she is kind of awesome. Her character is one of the closest things we could find to a feminist in British literature. This woman knows what she wants and how she is going to do it, and is not going to let anyone tell her she cannot do it because of her gender and how her gender is supposed to go about in society. That is why this quote, this little speech she gives actually, is so powerful. She is basically saying if you are not man enough to do it, I am. I believe in this enough to allow myself to overpower the guilt and remorse with cruelty, the "masculine" overtaking the "feminine", Allowing myself to become so cruel and ruthless that it no longer affects me, qualities that a woman cannot possess, "unsex me here". Allow me to do this. She believes in it so much, and I think instead of looking at her like this evil bitch of a character, we should be looking at her like this amazing, mentally strong character. I feel like she feels as though she is taking on the responsibility of both her and her husband at times, she thinks for him, and she wants to be able to act for him when his actions are not correct.
I am definitely a Lady McB supporter.
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