This paper is a critical evaluation of the role of women in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, based on a quote by Harold Bloom: "The role of the woman to be integrated into the schemes of men, and the cunning use of them to be examples of power in rulership." The major meaning of this role for women indicate how women play an equal part in the power play that is the basis the violent struggles of the throne that occur in the play. 3 pgs. 3 sources.