Lady Macbeth

Question 1

LM connection to witches

Answer 1

• She calls upon the spirits to “unsex me here” and for her “milk” creates life to be replaced with “gall” something acidic and destructivr

Question 2

LM masculinity

Answer 2

• she wanted the spirits to “make thick my blood” linking into Jacobean ideas that men had thicker blood than women, -she needs the supernatural to empower herself and not
  suffer from the “compunctious visitings of nature” (i.e. her conscience, highly
  ironic considering later in the play). As a result, it makes her a dangerous and seen as a villain from a Jacobean audience.

Question 3

Consequences of her supernatural wishes

Answer 3

• she has not been able to deny her conscience, and she is now suffering from a “great perturbation
  in nature” where she cannot remove the “damned spot” or the “smell” of Duncan’s
  blood from her.
• This ultimately reveals that she is, like Macbeth, human. Despite
  her attempts to become something else, she cannot remove her humanity and her perceived weakness.