Which motif is MOST present at the banquet Macbeth?
The theme of manliness, which Lady Macbeth used in Act 1 Scene 7
to persuade Macbeth to do the murder, reappears in this scene. Lady
Macbeth hopes to make Macbeth behave according to her wishes by
questioning his manhood as she did before: "Are you a man?", "these
flaws and starts . . . would well become a woman's story . . .",
"Quite unmann'd in folly?". Macbeth buys into it: "protest me the
baby of a girl", "I am a man again." But what Macbeth is dealing
with is far too powerful to be controlled by this kind of talk.