5. Masculinity And Femininity

Question 1

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5 (come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts…’)

Answer 1

‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from thy crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty’

Question 2

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5 (‘come to my woman’s…’)

Answer 2

‘Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall (poison)’

Question 3

Macbeth, Act 1 scene 7 (‘i dare do all that…’)

Answer 3

‘I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none’

Question 4

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 7 (‘when you durst do it…’)

Answer 4

‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’

Question 5

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 7 (‘while it was smiling…’)

Answer 5

‘While it was smiling from my face, have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out’

Question 6

Macbeth, Act 3 scene 1 (‘upon my head…’)

Answer 6

‘Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown and put a barren scepture in my gripe’

Question 7

Macbeth, Act 3 scene 2 (‘be innocent…’)

Answer 7

‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, til thou applaud the deed’

Question 8

Lady Macbeth, Act 3 scene 4 (‘what, quite unmanned…’)

Answer 8

‘What quite unmanned in folly?’

Question 9

Macbeth, act 3 scene 4 (‘what man dare, I dare…’)

Answer 9

‘What man dare, I dare […] take any shape but that and my firm nerves shall never tremble’

Question 10

Malcolm, act 4 scene 3

Answer 10

‘Dispute it like a man’

Question 11

Macduff, act 4 scene 3 (‘I shall do so…’)

Answer 11

‘I shall do so;but i must also feel it as a man’

Question 12

Ross, act 5 scene 9 (‘your son, my lord…’)

Answer 12

‘Your son, my lord, has paid a soldiers debt […] like.a man he died’