Although Janet Adelman`s important “‘Born of Woman’: Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth” first appeared more than two decades ago, her claim that Macbeth enacts an elimination of the female as a solution to the problems of masculinity still inspires much debate. However, rather than a “solution,” a term that implies resolution, this article posits that Macbeth intentionally leaves the audience ill at ease. This discomfort at the close of the play can best be elucidated by an application of two key Hegelian theories: the Hegelian state and the master/slave dialectic. Although Shakespeare offers a solution to the two large crises of the play-those of gender roles and disruption of monarchy-the solution is complicated by the play`s elimination of the female. Instead of leaving the audience with a sense of restoration of order, Macbeth illustrates that the enactment of an all-male realm is one that not only threatens the stability of both genders but that of the state as well.