Lady macbeth

Question 1

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers (2,2)

Answer 1

Lady macbeth critices Macbeth. Takes control- the use of imperative ‘give’ emphasises her dominance.

Question 2

What done is done

Answer 2

Euphemism. Ironic as it conveys Lady macbeth’s anxieties or is it a flippancy towards the scale of the crime committed.

Question 3

Yet do i fear thy nature; it is too full o’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way (1,5)

Answer 3

Lady macbeth after receiving her husband’s letter about the witches prophecy , expresses her fear that he isn’t evil enough

Question 4

I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round (1,5)

Answer 4

Lady macbeth wants to persuade macbeth into killing the king

Question 5

Come you spirits that tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the to toe top-full of direst cruelty (1,5)

Answer 5

Lady macbeth upon hearing that king Duncan is to stay the night in her castle purges herself of her feminine qualities to have the strength to kill Duncan

Question 6

Make my blood thick (1,5)

Answer 6

She wants evil spirits to clog her arteries so she feels no remorse for murdering the king

Question 7

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we’ll not fail (1,7)

Answer 7

LM challenged macbeth to commit the plan to kill duncan.

Question 8

Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t (2,2)

Answer 8

LD worried that M will fail to murder king duncan , reveals a weakness while boasting of her strength

Question 9

It will make us mad (2,2)

Answer 9

LM foreshadows her own insanity.

Question 10

Are you a man (3,4)

Answer 10

Lady macbeth questions macbeth’s masculinity when he claims to see Banquo’s ghost at the banquet

Question 11

Whats done cannot be undone (5,1)

Answer 11

Lady macbeth juxtaposes her previous statement - showing her mental destruction and the breakdown of her moral centre