Masculinity/gender Quotes Flashcards
Lady Macbeth act 1, scene 5.
“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
Lady Macbeth act 3, scene 4
“Are you a man?”
Macduff about LM act 2, scene 3
“O gentle lady ‘tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition, in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell”
Macduff act 4 scene 3
“dispute it like a man” - Malcolm
“But first I must feel it like a man” Macduff
Lady Macbeth act 1 scene 5
“Come to my woman’s breast and take my milk for gall”
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
Act 1, scene 7
“When you durst do it, then you were to be more than what you were, you would be so much more than a man”
Lady Macbeth
Act 2, scene 2
“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”
Lady Macbeth act 2 scene 2
“You do unbend your noble strength, to think so brainsickly of things”
LM act 3, scene 4
“O these flaws and starts, imposter to true ear, would well become a woman’s story at a winter’s fire, authorised by her grandma”