Lady Macbeth

Question 1

Through Lady Macbeth, the audience is shown that equivocation

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can lead to guilt and self-ruin

Question 2

Shakespeare associates Lady Macbeth with darkness

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and night to symbolise concepts of burying her feminine qualities

Question 3

The early subversion of gender roles between

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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth hints at the perversion of the natural order of the universe

Question 4

Nought’s had, all’s spent,

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Where our desire is got without content
(Lady Macbeth)

Question 5

all the perfumes of Arabia will not

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sweeten this little hand (Lady Macbeth)

Question 6

The thane of Fife had a wife

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where is she now? (Lady Macbeth)

Question 7

Will these

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hands ne’er be clean? (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

take my milk for gall,

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you murdering ministers

Question 9

Look like the innocent flower,

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But be the serpent under’t
(Lady Macbeth)

Question 10

Come, thick night,And pall thee

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in the dunnest smoke of hell (Lady Macbeth)

Question 11

What cannot you and I perform

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uponThe unguarded Duncan? (Lady Macbeth

Question 12

yet do I fear thy nature;

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It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness (Lady Macbeth)

Question 13

I dare do all that may become a man;

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who dares do more is none

Question 14

InfIrm of purpose!

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Give me the daggers (Lady Macbeth)

Question 15

My hands are of your colour; but I shame

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to wear a heart so white