lady macbeth

• "my dearest partner of greatness"
• "too full o' the' milk of human kindness"
• "unsex me here"

  "fill me from the crown to toe, top-full of direst cruelty"

  "make thick my blood"

  "stop up the access and passage to remorse"

  "come to my woman's breasts and take my milk for gall"

  "come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell"

  "nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark"
• macbeth


  "my dearest partner of greatness"

  "my dearest love"
• "look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"
• duncan


  "honoured hostess"
• act 5 scene 1: the sleepwalking scene

  • gentlewoman: "she has light by her continually, 'tis her command"
  • the light could symbolise goodness, and she's trying to purify herself, or protect herself from the darkness
• act 5 scene 1: the sleepwalking scene


  "yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him"
• act 5 scene 1: the sleepwalking scene


  • "will these hand ne'er be clean?"
• act 5 scene 1: the sleepwalking scene


  • "here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
• "what's done cannot be undone"
• “When our actions do not,Our fears do make us traitors.”
• " in the dunnest smoke of hell"

  "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark"
• “Out! damned spot!"
• “What’s done cannot be undone.”
• "when you durst do it, then you are a man!"

  • exclamatory sentence
  • 'd' sounds create a plosive alliteration
• "false face must hide what the false heart doth know"
• "a little water clears us of this deed"
• "tis safer to be that which we destroy"

  • feels regret and guilt
• "what's done is done."
• "are you a man?"

  "this is the very painting of your fear"

  "this is the air-drawn dagger"

  "why do you make such faces?"