Lady MacBeth

Question 1

Too __ ____ __ __ ____ _____ (1,5)

Answer 1

Too full o’ the milk of human kindness (1,5)

Question 2

___ ____ ____! ____ __ _____(5,1)

Answer 2

Out damned spot! Out I say (5,1)

Question 3

___ ___ ____ __ ___ ______ (5,1)

Answer 3

She has light by her continually (5,1)

Question 4

___ ___ _____ of _____ ___ __ ____ ___ ___ ____ (5,1)

Answer 4

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand (5,1)

Question 5

The ____ is _____ (3,4)

Answer 5

The fit is momentary (3,4)

Question 6

The ___ ___ ____ ____ ___ ____ as ____ (2,2)

Answer 6

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures (2,2)

Question 7

___ __ ___ ____ my ____ __ ___ ____, _ ___ _____ (2,2)

Answer 7

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

Question 8

_____ ___ _____ __ ___ ____ ____ and ____ ___ ____ (1,7)

Answer 8

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

Question 9

___ _____ my ___ ____ ___ ____ ____ and ____ __ ____ ____ (1,7)

Answer 9

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out (1,7)

Question 10

_ _____ ____ ____ __ of ____ _____ (2,2)

Answer 10

A little water clears us of this deed (2,2)

Question 11

___ like ___ _____ ___ __ __ ___ _____ _____ (1,5)

Answer 11

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t (1,5)

Question 12

___ ___ ____ … ____ me ____, and ____ __ ___ __ ____ to ___ ___ ____ __ ___ _____! (1,5)

Answer 12

Come, you spirits… unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty! (1,5)

Question 13

Too full o’ the milk of human kindness (1,5)

Answer 13

• LM believes that Macbeth isn’t ambitious enough to commit the regicide
• feminine metaphor
• Her view contrasts the “brave” warrior he’s described as

Question 14

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

Answer 14

• shows more feminine qualities here as an audience wonder- was this true? or was she finding an excuse to not be the one to do it?
• Also makes us wonder if LM really is as powerful as she first appears- could foreshadow later in the play as she completely loses control

Question 15

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out (1,7)

Answer 15

• Motherhood was seen as a gift of God in Jacobean times. The fact that LM uses such gory and grotesque imagery would’ve come as a huge shock, presenting her as unlikeable
• “boneless” suggests the innocence of the baby in the imagery, similar to how Duncan is innocent and didn’t deserve to be killed

Question 16

Out damned spot! Out I say (5,1)

Answer 16

• sleepwalking - LM is still using her commanding tone from the beginning but this time is desperately trying to clean her hands of the blood, symbolizing guilt
• we can see her guilt and anxiety- suggesting women should abide their role in society

Question 17

She has light by her continually (5,1)

Answer 17

• needs light as comfort to help her madness - completely different to what she’s like at the start of the play
• light could symbolize God- maybe LM is trying to repent her sins by needed to be by God

Question 18

The fit is momentary (3,4)

Answer 18

• trying to cover up Macbeth’s vision of the ghost by saying it happens often
• there is a growing distance between the Macbeths

Question 19

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures (2,2)

Answer 19

• Contrasts “had he not resembled… “ -
• dehumanises sleeping and dead- as if they are easy to kill because they don’t appear real - so why didn’t she murder Duncan herself?

Question 20

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand (5,1)

Answer 20

• parallels “will all great Neptune’s oceans wash the blood clean?” and juxtaposes “a little water clears us of this deed” - showing how LM is no longer the manipulative masculine character she was in 1,5 but now guilt ridden and afraid like Macbeth was
• “sweeten” suggests she needs purifying

Question 21

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

Answer 21

• trying to persuade Macbeth to go through with the murder
• displays her ability to manipulate M
• Certainty that they won’t fail, but it depends on Macbeth’s courage

Question 22

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t (1,5)

Answer 22

• Biblical allusion - similarly to Adam and Eve (this society was Christian) - the serpent deceives eve
• simile references parallel between the Macbeths and the serpent in the garden
• wants them to façade

Question 23

A little water clears us of this deed (2,2)

Answer 23

• indifferent, dismissive of the regicide
• contrasts Macbeth’s hyperbolic “will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands? - showing her ambition compared to his doubt

Question 24

Come, you spirits… unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty! (1,5)

Answer 24

• imperative driven language reveals dominance and extent of her ambition
• calling on supernatural - cannot be done on her own?
• wants masculine qualities so she can persuade Macbeth to kill
• “crown to toe” suggests she wants to be fully changed and shows how much she wants to be changed and change Macbeth