Lady Macbeth Flashcards
What quote from the beginning of A1S5 shows Lady Macbeth as quite witch-like and controlling?
‘pour my spirits into thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue’
What does Lady Macbeth say that alludes to how she wants to lose her femininity?
‘unsex me here’
What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S5 to show how she too wants to be hidden by darkness?
‘Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark’
What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S7 where she questions Macbeth’s manhood for the first time?
‘Be so much more of a man’
What does Lady Macbeth say to show what she needs to make her more masculine?
‘drunk hath made me bold’
What is Lady Macbeth’s reason for not killing Duncan, which shows how she does keep her femininity?
‘resembled my father as he slept’
What is the importance of Lady Macbeth carrying a taper?
It shows irony as she welcomed darkness but now can’t live without it
What does the Doctor say in the early part of A5S1 to show how Lady Macbeth is getting rid of the blood again?
‘look how she rubs her hands’
What does Lady Macbeth rhyme to show her further connection to the witches and evil?
‘Thane of Fife had a wife’
What does Lady Macbeth say which references what Macbeth said regarding Neptune’s Oceans in A5S1?
All of perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten this little hand
What does Malcom call the Lady Macbeth in his last speech of the play?
‘fiend like queen’
