Key Quotes Lady Macbeth Flashcards
Macbeth calls Lady macbeth as her wife
She is called: “My dearest partner in greatness” by Macbeth
Lady macbeth is saying that she is too kind
Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is to full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way”
Pour “evilness” into her self
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear
And chastise with the valor of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round”
Duncan enters macbeths home and lady macbeth says
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements
Does not want to be a woman anymore to show her true power
Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
Filling lady macbeth with full evilness
fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty
Take away her feminine characterisitcs (breasts)
Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers”
Duncan will never see the morning
- “O, never / Shall sun that morrow see!”
Look inncoent but a secret behind it
“Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t”
Underestimating macbeth by lady macbeth (gender)
“When you durst do it, then you were a man.”
If lady macbeth had a baby that she couldnt handle it
I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this”
Still trying to underestimate macbeth (courage)
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail”
Duncan pronounces his guest rites
Duncan says to her: “Fair and noble hostess,.We are your guest to-night”
Lady macbeth has aknowledged that macbeth has completed the murder
Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t”
Lady macbeth asks for the daggars
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.”
Lady macbeth knows that she is part of the crime (hands)
My hands are of your colour: but I shame To wear a heart so white ‘
Its finished, cant be stopped anymore
what’s done, is done”
Lady macbeth thinks that water washing the blood out of her hands will remove the sins
a little water clears us of this deed
Questions lady macbeth what else is there to do
What’s to be done?
Macbeth is no longer telling her what he is planning
Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck
Questions what gender he is
Are you a man?
Macbeth shouts at ghost of duncan at his throne
Out, damned spot; out, I say”
No one would of known that macbeth had so much cruelty in him
Yet who would have the thought the old man to have so much blood in him?”
Malcom calls lady macbeth
A fiend-like queen”
