Quotes by Character: Lady Macbeth

Question 1

Look like the innocent flower…

Answer 1

“Look like the innocent flower but be like the serpent under’t”

Simile and Metaphor
"Look" - Duplicitous nature
"Innocent flower" - Personification. 
Request turns into an imperative
"Be" she has power and is giving Macbeth no choice
Serpent biblical allusion to the devil

Question 2

I fear thy nature…

Answer 2

I fear thy nature//It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness

Fear - could be a hyperbole, used to manipulate Macbeth into changing his ways. Could also be a true reflection, Lady Macbeth has become so overcome by her ambition that she fears morality and wants to completely disregard it.
Nature - supernatural connotations, Lady Macbeth does not want to be associated with natural forces.
“Too” - highlights her critical nature
Milk of human kindness - metaphor that connotes to purity and morality.

disregarding the patriarchy

Question 3

Come you spirits

Answer 3

Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here

Imperative presenting her power as she even has control over supernatural forces.
Spirits connotation to the supernatural.
Unsex - patriarchy, wants to be reduced of all feminiity.
Mortal - connotations with supernatural, she wants to be higher than humans.
Assonance - presenting how emphatic she is being
alliteration