Character: Lady Macbeth Flashcards

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How is Lady Macbeth presented in the play?

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As a powerful and atypical woman in Jacobean Society who subverts the audience’s expectations of femininity

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LM is highly ambitious and determined for M to become King, after reading M’s letter what does she declare?

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“Glamis thou art and Cawdor - and shalt be what thou art promised”

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LM is anxious that Macbeth does not have the ruthlessness needed to secure his place as King, what does she say?

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Macbeth is “too full of the milk of human kindness”milk = purity, femininity. Emasculating him

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LM is deceitfully and manipulative, what does she say she will do Macbeth to cunningly persuade him to murder Duncan?

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She will “pour [her] spirits” In Macbeth’s ear

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LM is dominant and takes control what does she tell M that tells us she is the driving force behind the regicide plot?

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“Leave all the rest to me”
Leave = imperative

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What does LM say that shocks the Jacobean audience as she rejects the accepted motherly nature and shows she is violent and ruthless?

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Graphic imagery:
She would have “dashed” her own baby’s “brains out” whilst it was “smiling” in her face

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