lady macbeth

• “out damned spot, out i say!”

  • guilt begins to take over in her acts
  • the abrupt exclamatory imperatives show her obsessions with washing away her sins
  • “damned“ conatates the physiological hell she is experiencing due to guilt
• “unsex me here”

  • lady macbeth asks the evil spirits to get rid of her feminity so she can commit the brutal murder of duncan without remorse
• “i have given suck.. dashed the brains out“

  • to manipulate macbeth, she uses violent language to suggest she would kill her own baby rather than to go back on a promise
  • it is implied that she has children
• “ art not without ambition, but workout the illness should attend it“

  • she has great ambitions to become a powerful queen
  • she feels macbeths own ambition is not sufficient because he lacks a streak of ruthlessness to make his ambition effective
• “look like th’ innocent” flower, but he the serpent under it”

  • in this simile lady macbeth uses a strong imperative tone to advise macbeth on how to disguise his evil intentions infront of duncan
  • flowers ovb connote beauty while snakes connote sin