Shakespeare's Interpretation Or a Bias Perspective?

In a recent study, a female physics teacher has been giving the female students worse grades than the males for the same exact answers. As astonishing as this is is leads to the realistic fact that men establish a dominance over women, similar to Lady Macbeth and her passive aggressive persuasion towards Macbeth. According to Bethania Palma Markus, the phenomenon is from teachers with more experience, and the bias standpoint is relating to the fact that boys are superior to girls in this particular science. Lady Macbeth experiences the same type of scenario when she struggles to entice the idea of death into her husband’s mind, and as Macbeth contemplates her ideas many times.

This distinct female physics teacher, who is relatively new to the education system, creates an environment where these girls that receive lower grades begin to lose interest in the subject, as Lady Macbeth struggles in a compelling environment full of inferiority. In Act I Scene V, Lady Macbeth speaks of a letter she received from Macbeth and as she reads through it, she interprets that he is considering backing down from murdering King Duncan in order to obtain the crown. Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth would only accept the appeals made by her if she was not a female, and instead a male that has superiority. Macbeth is hesitant to complete Lady Macbeth’s request to kill the king because he supposes that she has the wrong idea and she does not understand the consequences if the mission falls to pieces. Similar to the female physics teacher, giving the boys better grades for the same exact answers is the definition of the society we live in, defining that men are superior to women. When the teacher graded these tests, they were online exams that teachers with experience and without it were the ultimate graders. Lady Macbeth and the physics teacher both undergo the conflict, directly and indirectly, of women’s inferiority by living in it and enduring in it.

The power struggle between men and women is immense as Lady Macbeth continues to wish she was a man throughout the play in order for her husband to carry out her orders without hesitation. The high school physics teacher, she believed that the underestimated answers were more likely to be girls answers while the more advanced answers were sought to be the males. Elizabeth Stern, a professor for the Empirical Educational Research states, “‘as a girl, when you already have the feeling in school that you won’t be fairly graded in sciences, then you tend to lose interest in these subjects.’”  As more girls are discriminated when they are compared to men in this subject, the girls gravitate towards a unhealthy dislike for the subject because of the society, believing that they deserve the lower grade. Although Lady Macbeth does not lose interest in her mission to have Duncan killed, she is discriminated against for being a women by Macbeth and counteract actions. Lady Macbeth and the physics teacher both battle the conflict of women's inferiority precisely and second handedly, adding on more problems to the warlike issue of men's superiority to women.

As society grows, the complication grow with it. As women’s inferiority is recognized in Macbeth, written in the early 17th century, it extends to the present day where the conflict is noticed in a Swiss research project. Men establish a dominant figure over women, manipulating society to show that women deserve no more than men do through education and more. Lady Macbeth and the high school physics teacher demonstrate an accurate justification of the conflict between men and women.