REAL MEN WEAR BLOOD

Like today, Macbeth challenges what the definition of a REAL MAN is. Lady Macbeth seems to think being a guy would be awesome, so that she can go around and murder whoever she wants. The day Young Siward truly sees his father as a hero is when his dad dies during a fight. Macbeth thinks it's a little pansy to murder the guy you want to murder in his sleep, but his Lady thinks otherwise and insults him right back. She constantly insults his masculinity so that he get coaxed into committing crime, because that's what real men do. Moments after he finds the terrible news of his family's death, MacDuff realizes he must "take it like a man" (an idiom used ridiculously often these days) and avenge them rather than sit around and cry about it. Macbeth gets people to kill by insulting their manliness, just like his wife. This just gets me wondering about today's definition of a "man" or a "woman"...is there a definate line? I believe that Shakespeare is trying to convey a much bigger message...one of discrimination and gender equality. Although the Lady was probably played by a male, she is not in any way seen as lesser than Macbeth, if not more powerful. Women strive to have men's traits, and men do the opposite (more secretly then than now). Macbeth seriously takes all these lines we have today and mixes them up to a point of no return. And here comes the key idea again...what do you think?