Lady Macbeth Flashcards
1
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Ruthlessly Determined & Ambitious (Opportunist)
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- “Leave all the rest to me.”
- She would have “dashed the brains” out of her infant than break Macbeth’s promise. - violently, shocking.
- “We fail!” - Ironic as she fails to consider the consequences after the deed is done.
- “We’ll not fail!”
2
Q
Deceptive
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- “Not heaven peep through the blanket of dark.”
- Plays the perfect hostess, “In every point twice done and double.”
3
Q
Purposeful/Takes control
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- “Give me the daggers.”
- Tells him to clean his hands and get his “night-gown”.
- Responds to Macbeth’s frenzy with practical, rational questions: “Who was it thus cried?”
4
Q
Woman of Action/ Takes control or charge (Mastermind behind the Plan)
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- “Leave all the rest to me.”
- Act 3, Scene - Beginning of the scene, LM covers for Macbeth and props him up publically “ruby” cheeked.
- “The fit is momentary.”
- "”Questions enrages him.
5
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Dark/evil side to LM (Welcomes her dark side)
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- “unsex me”
- “Come here, evil spirits.”
- Imagines herself to kill Duncan with her “keen knife.”
6
Q
Tormented by the bloody deed but hides this from her husband.
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- “nought had all’s spent.”
- “Tis safer…destroy.”
- “What’s done is done.”
7
Q
LM has some level of compassion, humanity.
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- “Had he not resembled my father as he slept.”
- “She needed the drink for “dutch” courage.
8
Q
Role Reversal
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- At end of Banquet of scene, LM becomes weary, quiet and less needed (redundant) by the pro-active, evil Macbeth.
9
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Sleep-walking Scene
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- LM emerges as the tormented soul.
- Act of sleep-walking is a visual representation of the horrors, guilt and remorse that weighs upon her.
- She evokes some level of sympathy from audience; we witness her guilty conscience and the very high price shad has paid for her crime:
- “Out damned spot!”/”All perfumes of Arabia.”
- “Banquo cannot come out on grave.”
- “Hell is murky.”
- “What’s done cannot be undone.”
