Macbeth Quotes (Act 1, Sc5)

Question 1

Lady Macbeth suggesting that Macbeth is too good to do the deed

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

here, she is saying that he needs more evil or “illness” in him to become King

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth to do the deed

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Lady Macbeth announcing that Duncan will die under her territory

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Lady Macbeth wanting her femininity gone

Answer 5

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

Willing to sacrifice something so pure

Answer 6

‘Come to my woman’s breasts,

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

Question 7

Duncan will not see another day

Answer 7

‘O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

appear well-meaning and gentle to hide his deceit.

Answer 8

‘look like the innocent flower,

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