The Serpent Underneath: A Lesbian’s Defense of Lady Macbeth
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Summary“Dyke,” hiss the schoolboys, to the girls with grass-stained knees and dirt-streaked cheeks. To the girls who run faster, throw further, tackle harder than the prides of fatherhood manifest. A word, but so much more a performance. A stereotype, but so much more an expectation. Sometimes, these girls are wronged. Sometimes, these boys are right. Playground dykes: a first acknowledgment of sexual beings, independent of sex, distorting the being.
I find it impossible to live separate from the homosexual lifestyle. To pass as straight is to deny gay culture, but to embrace gay culture for the sake of camaraderie is to perpetuate a false image. Sexuality and gender are not interchangeable ideals, nor do they obey the certain analogous formula of normal is to normal as abnormal is to abnormal. I can be gay and still be female.
I find it impossible to live separate from the homosexual lifestyle. To pass as straight is to deny gay culture, but to embrace gay culture for the sake of camaraderie is to perpetuate a false image. Sexuality and gender are not interchangeable ideals, nor do they obey the certain analogous formula of normal is to normal as abnormal is to abnormal. I can be gay and still be female.
Table of Contents- To the girls who run faster, throw further, tackle harder than the prides of fatherhood manifest.
- But I Shame to Wear a Heart So White
- I can easily paint a portrait of Lady Macbeth as a lesbian, victimized by the ultimately homophobic culture of the Renaissance.
- The conventional split between masculine and feminine in psychology and culture, that is, the contrast masculine/feminine, speaks also to pleasure, activity and passivity.
- Freud believed homosexuality in women to be caused by an unsuccessful resolution of the oedipal complex.
- Much of Lady Macbeth's masculinity is forged from the natural analogy between sex and violence.
- This idea of creating an other, a foil, is integral not only in the formation of Lady Macbeth's masculinity, but in her careful maintenance of it as well.
- What seems to be at the end of the play Lady Macbeth's downfall, the fall she shares with her husband from the invincible to the vulnerable, is not a fall at all.
- Ironically enough, not only does her masculinity forbid the return of feminine traits, the lack of those feminine traits does not allow for her to admit her changes.
- I Am Not from Your Tribe
- The qualities Lady Macbeth adopts to become a man, her journey toward her dreams of unsexing, become the qualities expected of lesbians.
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