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When shall we three meet again in thunder lightning or in rain
weather sets a scary symbolises the witches are evil when there are clouds God can’t see you.
Let not light see my black and deep desires
don’t let God see negative ambition to become king
Yet do I fear thy nature it is too full o’th milk of human kindness
breast milk, women’s job - lady Macbeth is saying Macbeth is to kind/weak to get what he wants saying he is a women
unsex me here
strip me of my feminine qualities make me more like a man so I can kill Duncan because Macbeth won’t
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it
the word innocent suggests that they have done nothing pure harmless wrong wrong innocent flower shows the technique metaphor beautiful elegant dedicate alluring serpent Adam and Eve tricked wicked evil devil sinister sly
Fair and noble hostess
good bravery linking to Macbeth ideal women
We love him highly and shall continue our graces towards him
Duncan thinks Macbeth good/trustworthy and they will continue to honour him
If we should fail
partners he is worried if they fail Macbeth will be executed he is asking lady Macbeth for support this links to a Jacobean upper class woman’s job
What cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan
rhetorical question she believes they’re unstoppable together she’s trying to make it sound easy he can do it gain power easily
Bring forth men
Macbeth beloved lady Macbeth is to masculine to give birth to female children because she is strong and fearless
False face must hide what the false heart doth know
they need to fake what they are actually feeling hide their emotions
Is this a dagger I see before me
rhetorical question links to the idea of killing Duncan he is imagining hallucinating the dagger he thinks it is a sign that he should kill Duncan
Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done’t
Duncan looks like her father so she couldn’t kill him
Glamis hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more
because of his guilt he will never be able to rest sleep
Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hand
clean your hands to the evidence blood links him to murder