Why is the feminist perspective hellbound on stripping female characters of any real complexity in order to shove down our throats yet another protagonist whose villainy can solely be rooted in falling prey to another cruel man? Apparently, in order to be cunning (because god forbid a woman can be cunning simply by nature) one has to be first thwarted by a brutish man.

Reid completely assassinates Lady Macbeth’s character, depriving her of the astonishing but dangerous slyness, ambition and defiance. In this story, she is Macbeth’s puppet, “nothing but the dagger in my husband’s hand,” utterly not comprehending the point that it is Lady Macbeth’s unstoppable force of agency that propels Macbeth and the events of the play forward. The story didn’t need to center Shakespearean characters and would have been decent as its own thing.

And also can someone explain what is with this constant xenophobia against the Scots?