point 2

• Shakespeare’s characterisation of Lady Macbeth demonstrates how those who are inherently corrupt do not feel guilt for their sinful ambitions since they do not possess integrity to begin with.
• "come you spirits...take my milk for gall"
• "come you spirits...take my milk for gall"

  “milk”-womanhood and thus symbolises purity, as women were considered intrinsically wholesome in the Jacobean era.

  juxtaposition- by opposing this term with “gall”(a symbol for cruelty)Shakespeare depicts Lady Macbeth as remorseless, since she wishes to deny her innate feminine innocence to fulfil her malign ambition.

  Gall was associated with yellow bile in the ancient theory of the four humours, which was believed to influence personality and emotions. An excess of yellow bile was thought to make a person ruthless and insolent, which fits Lady Macbeth’s desire to rid herself of compassion and become more merciless
• she uses guilt to spur him into committing regicide -she guilt trips him
• "And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.”
• "And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.”

  Shakespeare further disrupts Jacobean gender conceptions to accentuate Lady Macbeth’s ruthlessness

   by stating she would commit this atrocity “had [she] sworn” to Macbeth she’d do so, Lady Macbeth suggests that Macbeth’s refusal to kill Duncan is an act of disloyalty to her

  - During the Jacobean era, disloyalty to one’s wife was considered sin. Although, regicide was deemed as undoubtedly a far greater.

  Shakes illustrates how she manipulates his divine character and overpowers his guilt for committing regicide with the guilt of being disloyal to her-the audience then views her as selfish