Macbeth Quotes - Act 1, Scene 5

Question 1

Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth is too kind

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

Lady Macbeth asks that Macbeth should keep his ambition, but not the greed that comes with it

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Lady Macbeth will persuade Macbeth with her thoughts

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Lady Macbeth sees the raven as a herald of Duncans death

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Lady Macbeth wishes to be cruel

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!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 6

Lady Macbeth talks about having gall instead of milk

Answer 6

‘Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’
(Lady Macbeth)

Question 7

Like Macbeth, Lady Macbeth wishes for her desires to not be seen

Answer 7

O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

Lady Macbeth talks about deception

Answer 8

‘look like the innocent flower,

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