Lady Macbeth

Cards (13)

  • "Out damned spot! Out I say!" - Lady Macbeth while sleepwalking Act 5 Scene 1, struck with guilt
  • "Here's the smell of blood still; all the fumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth while sleepwalking Act 5 Scene 1, juxtaposition
  • "What's done cannot be undone" - Lady Macbeth while sleepwalking Act 5 Scene 1
  • "The Thane of Fife had a wife" Lady Macbeth while sleepwalking Act 5 Scene 1, rhyming shows insanity
  • "...by self and violent hands took off her life," Malcolm talking about LM's death Act 5 Scene 9, irony
  • "Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't" - Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5, metaphorical language
  • "by violent hands took off her life" Malcom's speech Act 5 Scene 9, reference to the hands that helped murder Duncan and decline in mental health
  • "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here" Lady Macbeth's soliloquy Act 1 Scene 5, imperative verbs, she wants to become more masculine so she can manipulate men
  • "Come, thick night..." Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5, imagery
  • "I have given my soul's consent" Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7, foreshadows her eventual downfall as she is willing to do anything to get what she wants
  • "My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white" Lady Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2, shows little compassion and little embarrassment which would shock the audience, challenges Macbeth's masculinity
  • "A little water clears us of this deed" Lady Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2, LM believes washing the blood will remove the guilt of killing Duncan but this foreshadows A5S1
  • "Go" "wash" smear" "Give" Lady Macbeth ordering Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2, imperative verbs, taking control