Lady <PERSON> received <PERSON>'s letter about witches' prophesy and became ambitious, immoral and a tempter. She did say
Unsex me here
But this has nothing to do with her gender, a lot of times it has happened in history that women have played deceitfully, immorally and cruelly for example you can take <PERSON>, wife of <PERSON> and daughter of <PERSON>'s General <PERSON>, was cruel and ambitious too.
The only way for Lady <PERSON> to gain power is through <PERSON> using her rhetoric.
That was true, she rewired the brain of <PERSON> (which was already fighting with the ambitious Devil) and made him to do what he feared. But not only she used rhetoric but also showed masculinity by taking the blooded daggers from <PERSON> and placing it there. But again this rhetoric persuasion should not be related with gender, as we find in <PERSON>; <PERSON> persuaded <PERSON> with murderous thoughts.
Do you think that the tragedy of Macbeth is the consequence of <PERSON> is being too sensitive to masculinity? What does Masculinity mean for <PERSON>?
<PERSON> was not less masculine, in Act 1 Scene 2 he is depicted as:
for brave <PERSON> – well he deserves that name
and he is considered violent too:
He unseamed him from the nave to th’chops
but it is unjust to think of his pure conscience as a sensitive masculine character, he after murdering the king <PERSON> expresses his inner voice as:
I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not.
So, considering the above saying of <PERSON> and comparing it with "He unseamed him from the nave to th’chops" it doesn't seem that <PERSON> was afraid of blood, he was afraid of himself and Higher Self, even at his death his last words were
. 247
. .my soul is clog’d with blood—
I cannot rise! I dare not ask for mercy—
It is too late, he drags me down; I sink,
I sink, — my soul is lost forever! — Oh! — Oh!
He thinks and worries about his soul, his feeling of guilt was overtaking him. The hallucination of <PERSON> was just another portrayal of how deeply <PERSON> was aware of his murderous sin.
There are some of the lines in Macbeth that do demonstrate gender hierarchy, <PERSON> said to Lady <PERSON>
Bring forth men-children only;
For thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males
and Witches warned <PERSON>
<PERSON>! be bloody, bold and resolute;
laugh to scorn the power of man;
for none of woman born shall harm <PERSON>.
To re-quote your question
What does Masculinity mean for <PERSON>?
<PERSON> was valor, and respected by whole men of <PERSON>. <PERSON> knew what sins always bring to the sinners at last, his extreme feeling of guilt and consequential hallucination was because of the transparency of his heart. 773