Lady Macbeth

Question 1

“Unsex”

Answer 1

stripping her of everything that makes her a reproductive woman.

Question 2

“Passage to remorse”

Answer 2

She wants her “passage to remorse” to be stopped up, being a woman and a mother makes her compassionate, so she wants the “passage” of childbirth to be blocked.

Question 3

“Milk for gall”

Answer 3

Asks for her breast milk to be turned into poison

Question 4

How is lady Macbeth presented

Answer 4

Strong, empowered and power hungry woman who isn’t afraid to get he hands dirty, this juxtaposed how must women in the Jacobean era would have been seen as

Question 5

Keen knife

Answer 5

Alliteration portrays her strength and powers as it shows her will, determination and eagerness to kill, as the noun ‘knife’ has connotations of death, Duncan

Question 6

“The raven himself is hoarse”

Answer 6

Symbolises Abbas omen so could foreshadow Duncan’s death or even Lady Macbeths herself as the Noun ‘Raven’ connotative darkness, death and mystery. This makes the audience feel intrigued but somewhat uneasy

Question 7

“Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

Answer 7

This show lady macbeths manipulative and has the power to control people as it is allusion to the bible verse where eve, being lady Macbeth, persuades Adam, being Macbeth, to eat the apple , being killing Duncan.

Question 8

Lady Macbeth gender subversion

Answer 8

At the start lady Macbeth is seen as strong and Macbeth as weak but towards the end of the play Shakespeare switches them back so lady Macbeth is seen as weak and Macbeth as strong

Question 9

“Leave the rest to me”

Answer 9

This Is this final line of the scene which not only leaves the audience in suspense at how the murder will be carried out, but also encapsulates Lady Macbeth personality of control in a sentence and she leaves on a note of power the audience can remember