Contemptuous of moral considerations Flashcards
After the murder of Duncan her dismissive tone contrasts dramatically with Macbeth’s regret.
While he is horror-struck, looking at his hands and remarking, ‘this is a sorry sight, she retorts, a foolish thought to say a sorry sight.
When Macbeth wonders if Neptune will ever be able to wash the guilt from his hands, she replies, ‘a little water clears us of this deed’.
She is impatient with his moral self-indulgence, as she would call it. To her, Macbeth’s fears are unreal and childish. ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’, she reminds him in a patronising tone.
She is impatient with his moral self-indulgence, as she would call it. To her, Macbeth’s fears are unreal and childish. ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’, she reminds him in a patronising tone.
Morality and concerns about doing the moral thing are not realistic in the harsh political world if one is to advance oneself.
her practical nature is seen in the way she takes control of the daggers Macbeth has brought from the chamber and returns them.
she is aware of his honest nature and how vulnerable he is at this point.
She tells him to get on his nightgown and advises him to present the deceiving appearance of innocence in facing the nobles.
when Macbeth begins to reflect aloud publicly on the transience of life, she intervenes by her fainting act to distract attention from him.
At the banquet she is the hostess disguising Macbeth’s erratic and revealing behaviour, ‘the fit is momentary, she tells her audience, a defect from youth.
The quick response to a crisis is her forte.
Then subsequently, she is able to usher the company out on the pretext that ‘question enrages him’.
