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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the female characters of each play (Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, and the Witches of “Macbeth,” and Volumnia, Virgilia, and Valeria of “Coriolanus”). Specifically considered are what these female characters symbolize and what conclusions can be drawn regarding the roles of women. No additional sources are used.
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gender roles and their rigidity in the Elizabethan society of his time. However, not all of his females were conventionally subservient; there were a few that exhibited strong characteristics
customarily associated with men. There were also those that seemed to exist beyond gender dictates so as to suggest what the future might hold for women if they would
be allowed to break free of their constraints. The many faces of woman are revealed in two of the Bards tragedies, Macbeth and Coriolanus. Interestingly, there are two female
characters in both Macbeth and Coriolanus that are not only stronger-willed than their male counterparts, but often serve as their backbone during moments of doubt. Initially, Lady Macbeth appears
to be even more ruthless than her ambitious husband, and willing to do whatever it takes to secure Macbeths goal. Whenever she thought her mate was showing any sign
of cowardice regarding killing King Duncan, she would chastise: "When you durst do it, then you were a man, / And, to be more than what you were, you would
/ Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place / Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. / They have made themselves, and that their fitness
now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the babe that milks me" (I.vii.55-61). Similarly, had Volumnia been born
a male, she would have most likely been one of the most fearless of Roman warriors. Like Lady Macbeth, since she could not do it herself, she would carefully
groom her son Caius Martius (who later was given the name Coriolanus by a grateful general) to do it for her. She demanded her son engage in unpleasant tasks
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