What Are The Similarities Between Lady Macbeth And Curley's Wife

How are women presented in ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘Macbeth’?
In ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘Macbeth’ we are given the impression that women are bewitching and different to the typical Tudor/1930’s woman. They don’t abide by the same rules as other women. In the Tudor times women were less compelling and authoritative than men. Men treated women like they were ornaments or their possessions. Women were products of marriage hence the reason they were known by their husbands name. Curley’s wife was always being controlled by Curley. He was always searching for his wife. Lady Macbeth influences the reader into thinking that she is in administer of murdering King Duncan. She uses her femininity to convince Macbeth into murdering the king. In ‘Of Mice

Both Lady Macbeth and Curley’s wife crave this power and attention. Lady Macbeth wanted to become queen and wanted to be thought of highly, whereas Curley’s wife wanted to become and actress and live a life of fame; she wanted people to think of her as star and to look up to her. Even before Curley’s Wife had lived on the ranch, she craved that attention. They are prisoners of their own ambition. Lady Macbeth ends up committing suicide because her ambition became too much for her to handle. Women were expected to stay at home, clean and prepare a meal for their husband for when he had returned home from a hard day of work. This didn’t apply to Lady Macbeth or Curley’s wife, Lady Macbeth would walk around manipulating her husband and Curley’s wife would walk around the ranch ‘not concealin’ anything. The only time that we saw Lady Macbeth cleaning was when Macbeth had returned from battle/the war. The views that people had of women, in the Tudor times and the 1930’s , links to both Curley’s wife and Lady Macbeth’s personality; temptress and evil. Curley’s wife tempted the men to stare at her with every chance

This technique to create an image of the character before we actually meet her for ourselves. Steinbeck uses another character (Candy) to give us a small interpretation of what she looks like and what type of person she is. Candy is prejudicing us into thinking Curley’s wife is a ‘tart’. This technique is effective because it makes us have to create this image of Curley’s wife on our own. Her first appearance could lead us into believing that she was a ‘tart’. She wore a ‘cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers’. Her hair ‘hung in little rolled clusters’. Her lips were ‘rouged’; her eyes were ‘wide spaced’ and ‘heavily made