Quotes: Act 1 Scene 5 Flashcards
Confirms and supports Macbeth’s ambitions.
“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promis’d”
Lady Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth fears her husband’s human compassion and kindness.
“yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ Milk of human kindness”
Lady Macbeth.
Macbeth lacks the wickedness to become king with his ambition
“Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it”
Lady Macbeth
Metaphor to highlight how she will manipulate Macbeth.
“That i may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue”
“all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal”
Lady Macbeth.
Compares messenger to bird of ill omen.
Symbol of death.
“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements”
Lady Macbeth.
Take away everything that makes her weak as a women.
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
Lady Macbeth.
Actively wants to be consumed by cruel villainous deeds.
“Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty”
Lady Macbeth.
Wants all conscience to be removed.
“Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse”
Lady Macbeth.
Rejects typical female qualities.
“Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall”
Lady Macbeth.
Moral darkness.
“Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”
Lady Macbeth.
Duncan will not live another day
“O, never shall sun that morrow see”
Lady Macbeth
Biblical reference.
Good and evil.
“Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t”
Lady Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth is in charge
“You shall put the night’s great business into ,y dispatch”
“leave all the rest to me”
Lady Macbeth
