Macbeth Quotes Act 1 Scene 5

Question 1

Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth it too kind ti kill Duncan

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Lady Macbeth says Macbeth has no ambition

Answer 2

‘Thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’

Question 3

Lady Macbeth hopes that she can persuade Macbeth into seeing her plan

Answer 3

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’

Question 4

Lady Macbeth hints at Duncan’s death

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Lady Macbeth wants to be unsexed and to be full 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!’

Question 6

Lasy Macbeth wants to get rid of her ability to have a baby

Answer 6

‘Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’

Question 7

Lady Macbeth says that Duncan won’t see the morning

Answer 7

‘O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!’

Question 8

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that he should look innocent but be ready to strike

Answer 8

‘look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t’