Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

Question 1

LM discribe MB as weak and kind

Answer 1

‘yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 2

Macbeth needs more evil or “illness” in him to become King, and therefore implies that she will “poison” him and give him the illness he needs to increase his ambition

Answer 2

‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 3

Lady Macbeth will try and manipulate/convince Macbeth

Answer 3

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 4

LM suggest that she is going to kill Duncan under her battlement ad indicated by the ill Omen of death

Answer 4

‘The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 5

LM demanding evil spirits to strip away her femininity and fill her with cruelty

Answer 5

‘Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 6

Milk -> nasty gall

Answer 6

‘Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 7

tomorrow will never come for Duncan, as he will die during the night.

Answer 7

‘O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

LM wants to deceive the king

Answer 8

‘look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t’ (Lady Macbeth)