Macbeth Quotes A1 S5

Question 1

Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth is too ‘pure’ to kill Duncan

Answer 1

yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way

Question 2

Macbeth needs more of Lady Macbeth’s nature in order for Macbeth to reach greatness so her sick nature will ‘attend’ (go to) Macbeth

Answer 2

thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it

Question 3

Lady Macbeth plans to manipulate Macbeth to kill Duncan

Answer 3

I may pour my spirits in thine ear

Question 4

The raven is a sign for Duncan’s inevitable death in Lady Macbeth’s ‘home’.

Answer 4

The raven himself is hoarse
The croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements

Question 5

Lady Macbeth commanding with the devil to change her feminine traits to masculine traits.

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!

Question 6

Lady Macbeth once again commands the devil to take (one of) her feminine feature and to replace it with a toxin.

Answer 6

Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers

Question 7

Tomorrow will never come for Duncan - he will die tonight.

Answer 7

O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!

Question 8

Look like a beauty but wound them from like a beast

Answer 8

look like the innocent flower

But be the serpent under’t