lady macbeth Flashcards
How does lady Macbeth change throughout the play?
At the beginning she wants to be in the dark to hide her evil but towards the end she seeks light (candle whilst sleep walking)
“the sleeping and dead are but as pictures”
-mocking macbeth’s hallucinations and guilt
-questioning macbeth’s fear over an image and compares him to a child
-metaphor of pictures
“come you evil spirits that tend on mortal thoughts,unsex me here”
Themes - gender,ambition,supernatural
-imperative sentence shows her as commanding,counter typical
-desperate to be a man
-verb unsec illustrates her frustration in her women’s body and her limitations
-shows how she believes her femininity is limiting
“look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
theme - reality vs appearance
-juxtaposition of the fragile, feminine flower with the dangerous,threatening “snake” shows macbeth he has to use deception to get power
-tells the jacobean audience that they cant take things at face value
when you durst do it then you were a man”
themes - gender,ambition
-manipulates macbeth into killing duncan by questioning his masculinity
-alliteration “durst do” shows how forceful and powerful she is to macbeth
-illustrates LM sees ambition as a sign of power and strength,macbeth not being ambitious enough shows him as weak in LM eyes
“out damned spot, out i say will these little hands never be clean”
theme-supernatural,guilt change
-shows how LM has changed from being evil,cruel to being penitent and guilty to what she has done
-repetition of “out” and the exclamatory sentence shows us how frantic she is and how much guilt has overwhelmed her
-blood in a motive of guilt
“my hands are of the same colour but i shame to wear a heart so white.a little water clears us of this deed”
theme-gender,guilt,change
-metaphor “heart so white” shows how she believes macbeth is too pure
-shows her ss manipulative and more powerful then macbeth
-contrasts her at the end of the play showing us that guilt cannot be cleared it sticks with you
lady macbeth quotes
-“my hands are of the same colour but i shame to wear a heart so white.a little water clears us of this deed
-when you durst do it then you were a man”
-“come you evil spirits that tend on evil thoughts,unsex me here”
-“out damned spot, out i say will these hands never be clean”
-“look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
-“the sleeping and dead are but as pictures”
