lady macbeth

    Cards (5)

    • “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