LADY MACBETH

Question 1

ACT 1

“dearest partner of greatness”

Answer 1

infantilises Macbeth ( attempt to increase her power and make them equal ) . “ partner” suggest she is equal to Macbeth , which she was not in the Jacobean era

Question 2

ACT 1

“unsex me here”

Answer 2

LM sees her gender as her weakness ( removal of femininity) , Jacobean reference to women having no power

Question 3

ACT 1

“and take my milk for gall”

Answer 3

her woman features such as breast milk are poison and holding her back ( poison linking to snake) further links to the snake from the Adam and Eve story (snake reason women aren’t equal) then correlates to Jacobean era

Question 4

ACT 2

“ unbend your noble strength”

Answer 4

LM describes Macbeth as physically strong and powerful for killing but mentally weak and unstable (emasculation)

Question 5

ACT 2
“Brainsickly”

Answer 5

LM describes Macbeth of that (foreshadows the mental instability yet to come)

Question 6

ACT 3

“what is done is done”

Answer 6

Demonstrates her unsympathy as she is using Macbeth as her way to gain power (power hungry)

Question 7

ACT 3

“Are you a man”

Answer 7

Insults Macbeth’s masculinity in an attempt to make him encourage himself to pull himself together

Question 8

ACT 5

“Out damnned spot I say”

Answer 8

Sleep walking and demonstrating washing her hands, symbolism of water/lack ( cannot heal or change )

Question 9

ACT 5

“wash your hands , put on a nightgown”

Answer 9

Hallucination

Instructing herself to pull herself together which juxtaposes how she ridiculed Macbeth for the same thing