Lady Macbeth

Question 1

Out, damned spotl out, I say!

Answer 1

-Lady Macbeth hallucinate just like Macbeth guilt slowly grows in her making her image there is a spot of blood on her
-show insanity madness a mental decline could be a punishment from god
-exclamation frustration and her madness

Question 2

Hell is murky

Answer 2

-foreshadows lady Macbeth’s fate
-Aware of the afterlife punishment

Question 3

“Perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Answer 3

-little hand show a reduction in power
- unsure if perfume of Arabia is able to undo/hide her past action
-Sense of regret

Question 4

“Look Like Th’ Innocent Flower, But Be The Serpent Under ‘T”

Answer 4

-Lady Macbeth decisive nature duality
- presents her evilness
- biblical reference “serpent” she has went against god/ further away from god
-Shakespeare present committing regicide will lead to you to become devilish perhaps to make the audience shocked.

Question 5

“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty”

Act 1 scene 5

Answer 5

• Lady M Calls on spirit similar to the witches shows her devilish side shocked audience as they realise the capability that women had to turn this evil
  -The verb “unsex” shows she wanted to remove her femininity to become more masculine so that she is able to be emotionless.
• It also potrays her ambition for power, as she is willing to throw her own feminity away in order to gain power, may scare the female audience so they aren’t influence to have ambition like Lady Macbeth

Question 6

“when thou durst to do it, then you were a man”

Act 1 scene 7

Answer 6

-Lady Macbeth is cunning, knowing that it was a period where society was patriarchal, where men were thought to be more powerful then women, she attacks M masculinity telling him “when you durst do it then you were a man”. This quote from Lady M emasculates M masculinity depriving it from Macbeth. This attack was cunning because Macbeth being a patriarchal man believed he should be brave and strong especially to his wife so this emasculating quote would have made M want to prove to his wife his capabilities persuading him to commit regicide.