Women's Ability to Gain Power

In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, we see Lady Macbeth portrayed as a character full of evil and only in it for her to obtain power. Although she is characterized as a woman with calamitous qualities, she has passion and ambition to achieving her destination of having power. Today we see woman, in a sense, shown in the same way; full of eagerness and anxiety to achieve something they want or need. It seems though the only way for a woman to be able to achieve success they must liberate their masculinity first. In order to gain power the woman must first show that they are not afraid of anything in their paths and must also show fortitude in their daily lives. Reasoning for why women must act this way is because they have to be tenacious. No one, even other woman, would want their leader to be weak or temperamental because they need someone who is going to not back down to anything. This is most likely why women tend to act more like men in order to achieve power; men often aren’t as fanatical. So how do women then achieve power and success? Society tends to believe that acting as a man gets them power, but this is not always true. In modern time we see very inspirational and stern women that didn’t have to act like a man; Queen Elizabeth for example. She was a woman whose mother and brother were very young so she did not have a lot of emotional support. But because she was without this she had to do things on her own to achieve power. She became Queen and had very feministic approach on England but at the same time was not disdainful towards others. She showed that you did not have to show masculinity in order to acquire reward. Another example in modern times would be Margaret Thatcher, the first woman prime minister. She is a positive and lively person who generally has invigorating, inspiring, and energizing effect on others. She showed that women can have success and not have to show masculinity as well. All in all I believe woman and men have the same ability to achieve power, but it might be harder for woman to break the trend of continuous men power. They do not need to show any type of masculinity, but they need to be assertive, emphatic, and a great leader in order to achieve success and power.