Macbeth Characters: Lady Macbeth Flashcards

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Manipulative

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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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this

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Controlling

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Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t

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Treacherous

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Come spiritsthat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-fill of direst cruelty

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Emotionally dominant

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Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

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Loses dominance + superiority

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Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck

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Tormented

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Here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

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Went from controlling to vulnerable

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Come thick night…

Hell is murky

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Guilt ridden

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What’s done is done

What’s done cannot be undone

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Lady Macbeth’s personality

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Controlling
Manipulative
Emotionally dominant
Treacherous

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Lady Macbeth’s transition

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Controlling -> vulnerable
Tormented
Guilt ridden
Loses dominance

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