lady macbeth Flashcards
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
Act 1, Sc.5, p14
Metaphor “milk of human kindness” - associated with purity. Complains that MB is too nice.
L.M
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;
What hath quench’d them hath given me fire. (Act 2, Sc.2, p26)
Jux between LM and everyone else. Separation between “them” and “me”.
“Quench’d” - metaphorical fire: passion, determination. They should subdue her but instead gives her more courage to kill DC.
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. (Act 2, Sc.2, p28)
“Give me” imperative. Takes power/responsibility. Context.
Simile “as pictures” -they won’t jump to get you AND they look the same.
Emasculates him, accusing him of being childish/afraid of a “painted devil”, something that’s not real.
- they paint themselves as the devil
L.M
My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white
- costumes, mask themselves with innocence
L.M
What, quite unmann’d in folly? (Act 3, Sc. 4, p54)
Emasculation. Gets even harder and colder bc it is unnatural for women to take the male role. Her behavior is unnatural and that destroys her.
L.M
Out, damned spot!
Afraid/worried of it when it’s a memory.
She is using prose - unstandard/irregular, reflecting how her mind is breaking down like the structure of her speech.
L.M
What, will these hands ne’er be clean? (Act 5, Sc.1, p84)
he believed that she could erase the guilt, evokes MB “seas incarnadine”. Irony that guilt cannot be erased now.
L.M
Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little Hand. (Act 5, Sc.1, p84)
Links to Neptune’s oceans. She started super evil/shameless/ruthless, now she is put back in her place, unravelling bc of the evil she has caused.
