Lady Macbeth

• Look like the Innocent Flower but be the serpent under it...
• Out! Damned Spot
• What does Out Damned Spot represent LM'S mental health as?

  murdering king Duncan is catching up to her as she sees blood on her hands, she cannot come to terms that she's going to hell
• Come you spirit... Unsex me here
• What is LM trying to say about her sex

  "Come you spirit... Unsex me here" She wants to lose all of her feminine attributes, she wants to be free and commanding just like a male, but not actually be a male. She feels as if her sex is holding her back because in the jacobean era it wasn't normal for a woman to be as authoritative as her
• what does the quote "Look like the Innocent Flower but be the serpent under it..." mean?

  LM says this to Macbeth so people can believe he is a commendable person, but in reality he is heinous and malevolent. This presents the idea of Apperance vs reality.
• Fill in the gaps

  "When thou durst do it, then you were a man"
• What is LM evoking by saying "When thou durst do it, then you were a man"

  Lady Macbeth is evoking the idea that Macbeth will truly not be a man until he commits regicide, this is killing King Duncan. She is basically calling him a coward, LM is manipulating Macbeth into killing the king, she is using her psychological abilities to persuade macbeth into doing this because she doesn't want to do it herself. In the Jacobean era it wouldn't be women like to kill someone. Therefore she persuades Macbeth
• What does emasculating mean?

  Depriving a male of his masculine abilities.