Lady Macbeth: Quotes

Question 1

Lady Macbeth fears her husband’s human compassion and kindness.

Answer 1

“yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ Milk of human kindness”

Lady Macbeth.

Question 2

Macbeth lacks the wickedness to become king with his ambition

Answer 2

“Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it”

Lady Macbeth

Question 3

Metaphor to highlight how she will manipulate Macbeth.

Answer 3

“That i may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue”

Lady Macbeth.

Question 4

Take away everything that makes her weak as a women.

Answer 4

“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”

Lady Macbeth.

Question 5

Actively wants to be consumed by cruel villainous deeds.

Answer 5

“Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty”

Lady Macbeth.

Question 6

Wants all conscience to be removed.

Answer 6

“Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse”

Lady Macbeth.

Question 7

Rejects typical female qualities.

Answer 7

“Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall”

Lady Macbeth.

Question 8

Duncan will not live another day (ambition)

Answer 8

“O, never shall sun that morrow see”

Lady Macbeth

Question 9

Biblical reference.

Good and evil.

Answer 9

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

Lady Macbeth.

Question 10

Lady Macbeth is in charge (taking control)

Answer 10

“You shall put the night’s great business into my dispatch”
“leave all the rest to me”
Lady Macbeth

Question 11

Lady Macbeth questions whether he was drunk when he wanted to kill Duncan

Answer 11

‘Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since?’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 12

Lady Macbeth compares her husband’s love for her in his actions

Answer 12

“From this time, such I account thy love”

Lady Macbeth

Question 13

Lady Macbeth talks about how she would’ve killed a baby to keep her promise

Answer 13

‘I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 14

(Lady Macbeth)

Dismisses Macbeth cannot say amen

Answer 14

Consider it not so deeply

Question 15

(Lady Macbeth)

Water clears them of sins

Answer 15

A little water clears of the deed

Question 16

Lady Macbeth is more resolved

Answer 16

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.

Question 17

Macbeth looks at his bloody hands and Lady Macbeth comforts him

Answer 17

This is a sorry sight. M

A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight. LM

Question 18

Lady Macbeth’s advice to Macbeth in order to calm himself as he is going mad

Answer 18

These deeds must not be thought after these ways. So, it will make us mad

Question 19

she insults Macbeth’s manhood

Answer 19

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”