Lady Macbeth Flashcards
What does LM say about Macbeth, after receiving his letter telling her about the prophecies?
“yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’ the milk of human kindess”
What does LM say in her soliloquy where she asks for help from the supernatural?
“come you spirits, that tend on mortal thought, and unsex me here/ fill be from the crown to the toe top-full of the direst cruelty”
What does she about the passage to remorse in her soliloquy where she asks the supernatural for help?
“stop up th’access and passage to remorse”
What does Lm say about her milk?
“take my milk for gall”
What does she say about being covered by the dark?
“pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell”
What does she instruct Macbeth to do?
“look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
What does she say, when she sleepwalks, about blood?
“Out, damned spot!”
What does she say about perfumes and blood?
“all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
What does Lady Macbeth say when she is alone on stage, revealing her fears?
“noughts had, all’s spent/ where our desire is got without content. Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ than be destruction dwell in doubtful joy”
