Lady Macbeth gender

Question 1

“Too full o’th milk of human kindness”

Answer 1

They suggesting she will replace this milk with evil. The noun milk is symbol for femininity and maternal nurturing Lady Macbeth rejects notions of femininity

Question 2

“Pour my spirits in thine ear”

Answer 2

She is a femme fatale as she is not only manipulative projects her womanhood and motherhood a typical troop a femme fatale. Her manipulation is salient in the quote as she wants to taint Macbeth’s mind with her “spirits”

Question 3

“Was the hope drunk/ wherein you dress’d yourself?”

Answer 3

Used to ridicule him and used the rhetorical question as calculated tool of her manipulation. She gives him time to ponder and think about his actions – it is clear she wants to exploit his emotion of embarrassment or shame

Question 4

“I shame to wear a heart so white”

Answer 4

She read it uses cowardice. As white connotes purity, she is mocking his pure and moral heart , doesn’t fit gender roles in patriarchal society