Lady Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Act 1 scene 5
“That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here…”
- Witchy ‘mortal thoughts’
- she wants to sell her body
- wants to be a man ‘unsex me here’
- woman are weak
Act 1 scene 5
“Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers…”
- women are weak
- wants to be a man ‘take my milk’
- ‘for gall’ (poison) taking away motherhood -> demonising
- demoralising motherhood
Act 1 scene 5
“Bear welcome in your eye, // Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, // But be serpent under’t”
- telling Macbeth to be sly
- undercover like a snake “serpent”
- be kind and welcoming
Act 1 scene 6
“All our service // in every point twice done and then done double…”
- flattery
- easily portrays the serpent
- maybe lady Macbeth has been decietful before
Act 1 scene 7
Ll 55-58
- she would harm her child than be a coward
* minipulative
Act 1 scene 7
“We fail…”
- rhetorical question
* won’t fail if Macbeth is brave
Act 2 scene 3
Lady M “Help me hence, ho!”
Macduff “Look to the lady”
- on purpose fainted so Macbeth didn’t say anything
- Again being a serpent
- decietful
Act 2 scene 2
“Had he not resembled // My father as he slept, I had done’t”
- showing signs of weakness
- giving excuses
- rather harm her children but wouldn’t kill what resembles her father
Act 3 scene 2
“Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks; //
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night”
- lady M seems to have easily forgotten the murder
* still trying to be a serpent
Act 3 scene 2
“What’s done is done”
• they never call the murder and death by those words only by it or that
Act 3 scene 4
“Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends…”
- trying to be humble hostess
- too lazy to say welcome
- perhaps falling ill
Act 5 scene 1
Ll 30 - 58
“Come, come, come, come, give me your hand; what’s done cannot be undone”
- gone crazed by death and hell
- speaks of evil thoughts
- but still can’t say the words murder or death
- mentally ill
