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Gender And Power In Macbeth

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In the play Macbeth, there are a lot of things that go on throughout this story that show a lot of different feelings, emotions, and characters. Macbeth is more of a tragedy of character, rather than a tragedy of fate. The characters help persuade each other into changing throughout the play, in ways that it is difficult for other characters to understand. This story can be considered as a tragedy of character, because Macbeth becomes blinded by his ambition, which allows his wife, Lady Macbeth, to persuade him to commit evil doings that later on, leads him to his breakdown. In this play, the relationship between gender and power, just so happens to be one of the main themes, and the characters embody this relationship, which ends up

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