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funky-sea-cryptid · 1 year ago

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What she says: I’m fine

What she means: It’s truly amazing to me how many people’s hot take on Macbeth is that Lady M is the true villain of the piece for badgering her husband into committing murder when in reality the far more nuanced and interesting reading is that their character arcs form mirror images (ruthless > remorseful vs. reluctant > remorseless), and to be honest I’m pretty sure it has everything to do with our subconscious belief that villainous women are in some fundamental way worse than villainous men because in addition to doing bad things they violate our expectations about femininity (come you spirits unsex me here and fill me from the crown to toe topfull of direst cruelty) as soft and nurturing and non-violent and it is!! absolutely incredible!!! that this many people manage to read a play thematically concerned with the horrific results of conceptualizing violence as a defining trait of masculinity and come away doing the adam-and-eve thing (it’s the woman’s fault she told me to eat the fruit!) where Macbeth is the once-noble man tragically fallen and Lady Macbeth is his one-dimensionally evil nagging wife!!!!!!

#PREV SO TRUE #im sorry everyone (i am not) im a STAUNCH lady m defender gruoch slay all the time always.#point is right macbeth was like “hmmm what if i Kill” like immediately after the witches gave the prophecies. and exactly ONE murder was #her suggestion anyways so EVEN IF THIS POINT WAS TRUE (WHICH IT ISNT) macbeth had gone on to commit multiple other murders by that point #(banquo. lady macduff and the kids. mentioned other dissenters. etc) so like. even if it was gruoch's fault macbeth killed duncan #MACBETH KILLED MULTIPLE OTHER PEOPLE ON HIS OWN MERIT LIKE COME *ON* NOW!!!!! like YES gruoch isn't a good person but it's a whole thing in #the play like i dont think anyone *is*. malcolm runs off to england instead of accepting his role as king. duff leaves his family.#banquo suspects that macbeth killed people and then holds his tongue about it. if he'd fucking TOLD someone maybe less people would've died #this isnt like victim blaming banquo btw he didnt deserve to die #my point is im sick of people being like the real villain is lady macbeth. ITS NOT!!! SHUT UP!!! SHES NOT EVIL!!!!! lord she is not GOOD bu #she's not the real villain or whatever the fuck.#macbeth

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