Lady Macbeth Flashcards
Sees her femininity as a weakness to commit the crime
‘Unsex me here’
“Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall’
Manipulative
At the beginning, she has control over macbeth which juxtaposes her at the end of the story when macbeth has taken control and she’s barely present.
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’
Using his masculinity to manipulate him/ playing on his masculinity.
‘Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!’
She sees Macbeth’s goodness as a weakness
“Yet I do fear thy nature: it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
Appear kind to others as an act to deceive them so they don’t suspect him of any malice.
‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it’
She’s ambitious
‘what greatness is promised thee’
“The future in the instant”
‘”I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I sworn, as you have done to this.”
Shows no remorse for the killing of Duncan at first, opposite of Macbeth
‘Give me the daggers’
Wants to be made evil to help Macbeth achieve becoming king
“Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”
“fill me from the crown to the toe top full of the direst cruelty.”
Feels guilty
Becomes deranged
Is haunted by the past
will these hands ne’er be clean?”
“who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
‘What’s done cannot be undone’
LM losing control of Macbeth
Act 3
‘What’s to be done?’
