Discuss the Character of LMB

Question 1

• LMB is cold and calculating

Answer 1

“too full o’th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”

Question 2

LMB is inwardly emotional and vulnerable

Answer 2

“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

Question 3

LMB puts on different personas as protection

Answer 3

“Help me hence, ho!”

Question 4

Repression of emotion leads to LMB’s downfall

Answer 4

“Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Question 5

LMB wants to embody ‘masculine traits’

Answer 5

“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from crown to toe top-full of direst cruelty”

Question 6

LMB is unable to handle the consequences and must now live in constant fear

Answer 6

“Naughts had, all spent, where out desire is got without content”