quote analysis

• unsex me here

  • LM wants to become more masculine so she can murder Duncan
  • LM is insisting the spirits to strip her of her femininity
  • LM is the driving force behind Duncan's murder
  • the audience would be shocked as women were seen as soft and caring
• take my milk for gall

  • wanting to remove all femininity and not be able to feed children
  • wants to remove her milk with poison so she's able to commit murder
  • complete opposite to how women were perceived
• out damned spot

  • overcome with guilt and hallucinating
  • she cannot get the blood of her hands
  • showing how murder impacts
  • following to suicide
• why dont wee see LM in act 4?

  Shakespeare did this to show her descent into guilt and madness
• nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

  • LM doesn't want heaven to see the murder plotting
  • 'blanket of the dark' like Macbeths thoughts
  • doesn't want heaven to see her helping her husband become king