5 Quotes from MacBeth that are about being a man

1.  pg. 33 lines 47-50
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. -Lady MacBeth

Lady MacBeth has just read MacBeth's letter to her about his crossing with the three witches and she has just been told that the king is going to their house tonight with MacBeth. Lady MacBeth was talking to herself about how she feels like she needs to be more like a man and how she needs to become all evil.

This quote tells how men are very cruel and evil but stronger then woman. How we are cruel enough to do anything and not feel bad about it. And also that we can do more then woman because we have more strength then them.

2. pg 43 lines 53-58
What beast was 't then, that made you break this enterprise to me? 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. -Lady MacBeth

Lady MacBeth is criticizing MacBeth for trying to talk her out from their plan to kill Duncan to gain Kingship. She feels angry and betrayed by MacBeth.

Lady MacBeth here says that you aren't a man if you back out from your promises. You need to go through with everything that you say that you will or else you are not a man, no matter how evil your promise is.

3. pg 43 lines 60-67
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 would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked out my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
-Lady MacBeth

Lady MacBeth is now telling MacBeth how much stronger she is then him. How he needs to start acting like a man or become more like her (a woman).

This shows that men have to be able to overcome anything that comes in their way of their goal. Here, Lady MacBeth does it through telling him that she could starve her own new born baby and watch it die if she promised that she would do it.

4.  pg 167 lines 10-12
There is Siward's son and many unrough youths that even now protest their first of manhood. -Lenox

Malcolm's army has just arrived at MacBeth's castle. They were thinking of a strategic spot to be in when they started talking about who will be there at the battle

What Shakespeare shows is that the young boys who are in this fight are becoming men by participating it the battle. It shows that to be a man you have to be able to fight and hold your ground for your beliefs and thoughts.

5. pg 187-189 lines 45-48
He Only lived but till he was a man, the which no sooner had his prowess confirmed in the unshrinking station he fought, but like a man he died. -Ross

Malcolm, Ross and Siward were talking about the battle that they won when they realized that Siward's son wasn't alive. Ross told Siward that he had fought bravely and died as a man and not a boy.

This shows that Men can only leave a fight in 2 ways, victory or death. Men cannot run from a fight or they are seen as woman.