Macbeth Characters: Lady Macbeth Flashcards
Manipulative
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
Controlling
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t
Treacherous
Come spiritsthat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-fill of direst cruelty
Emotionally dominant
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
Loses dominance + superiority
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck
Tormented
Here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
Went from controlling to vulnerable
Come thick night…
Hell is murky
Guilt ridden
What’s done is done
What’s done cannot be undone
Lady Macbeth’s personality
Controlling
Manipulative
Emotionally dominant
Treacherous
Lady Macbeth’s transition
Controlling -> vulnerable
Tormented
Guilt ridden
Loses dominance