lady macbeth quotes

• 'look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.'
• yet do i fear thy nature
• out damned spot! out I say!'
• it is too full o'th' milk of human kindness
• What does fear connote?

  Macbeth's kind nature join with evil or SN. imp morality is frightening and threatening
• come to my woman's breasts
• What does nature mean in "Yet i do fear thy nature"?

  Noun - alludes to MBs mortal soul -true identity- unchangeble - Moral compass inheret
• what does milk mean in "Milk of human kindness"

  • Can expire, rotten and poison
  • Breastfeed, ass with femininity
  • presents compassion as weakness
  • emasculates Mb and stops him from being strong and brave king
• What does "innocent flower" mean

  That macbeth must not show his guilt
• What does "Serpent" mean in the serpent under't'

  has connotations of sneaky and sly + juxtaposition
• what does "under't'" mean in the serpent under't'

  manipulation - going against the second sex theory
• What language feature is "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't'

  Simile + juxtaposition
• What does thick connote in "make thick my blood"

  Powerful and stronger
• Context for "Make thick my blood"

  men in Jacobean era often seen as having "thick blood" - stronger than women
• What does "come" mean in "come you spirits"?

  Imperative verb - powerful and in control. Also against second sex theory
• what does "Spirits" connote in "come you spirits"

  Calling on spirits would've been seen as a sin in Jacobean society - Written to impress King James 1
• Come you spirits
• what does "heaven" connote in "Let not heaven see" ?

  Strictly religious in Jacobean era - going against divine right of kings
• What does "Deep and dark desires" connote?

  Suggests she wants power and will do anything to get it - against binary opposites theory
• let not heaven see my deep and dark desires
• What does "childhood" suggest in "eye of childhood"

  that macbeth is immature
• What does "fears" suggest in "fears that painted the devil"

  She undermines Macbeth's masculinity = going against language and gender theory
• what does "painted" connote in "the painted devil"

  His fears are not real - same as her fear for killing Duncan - contrasts with behavior at end of the play
• they eye of childhood that fears the painted devil
• What does the repetition of "Out" connote in "Out damned spot"

  the Jacobean audience believed that women could not handle power - modern day audience may think she is suffering from mental illness
• What is the "damned spot" she wants rid of

  Blood stained guilt on her hands
• What does "say" connote in "out i say"

  imperative verb - contrasts with controlling, confident behaviour in rising action
• unsex me here
• What does "unsex" connote in "unsex me here"

  She believes that if her femininity is stripped from her she would be seen as stronger
• What does "unsex me here" connote?

  She wants to be neither man or woman - doesn't want to uphold honour - turns to evil (and is comfortable doing so)
• What does perfidious mean?

  being deceitful and untrustworthy
• what does zealotry mean

  Extreme obsession or devotion to something