Act 1 Scene 5

Question 1

What happens in this scene

Answer 1

Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth telling her about the Witches prophecies. She begins to plot King Duncan’s murder. Macbeth arrives and they decide to kill Duncan that evening

Question 2

Give a quote that presents Lady Macbeth as corrupt and evil

Answer 2

I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts/ unsex me here/ fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty/ make thick my blood/ stop up th’access and passage to remorse/ take my milk for gall/ pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell

Question 3

Give a quote that presents Lady Macbeth as corrupt and evil

Answer 3

I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts/ unsex me here/ fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty/ make thick my blood/ stop up th’access and passage to remorse/ take my milk for gall/ pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell

Question 4

Give a quote that presents Lady Macbeth as corrupt and evil

Answer 4

I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts/ unsex me here/ fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty/ make thick my blood/ stop up th’access and passage to remorse/ take my milk for gall/ pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell