Macbeth - LM Quotes

• ’When you durst do it, then you were a man’


  She is making Macbeth feel like he is not manly unless he kills Duncan
• ‘Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty‘


  She is summoning evil spirits to replace the good in her

  -Supernatural
• ‘That I may pour my spirits in thine ear’


  LM wants to manipulate Macbeth and get him to do as she wants

  • Deceit
• ‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’


  LM is telling Macbeth to appear well-meaning and gentle to hide his deceit

  -Deceit/Betrayal
• ’Out damned spot - out I say’


  LM sees a vision of blood

  Shows that she is going mad as punishment of breaking the great chain of being

  • Motif of blood/Madness
• ‘I shame to wear a heart so white‘ 


  LM is saying that Macbeth is a coward for feeling guilty for Duncan’s murder because they are both just as guilty for his murder

  • Guilt/Betrayal
• ‘A little water cleans us of this deed’


  She is suggesting that the crime could simply be washed away by water - LM has become more ruthless as Macbeth's courage begins to fade
• 'screw your courage to the sticking place'


  LM is telling Macbeth to ready his courage for the upcoming deed of killing the king
• 'I fear thy nature is too full of the milk of human kindness'


  LM is expressing that she feels that Macbeth is not evil enough to kill the king
• 'take my milk for gall'


  LM wants any femininity removed from her as she feels that it is a weakness
• 'What's done is done'


  LM wants to put the deed behind them and she does not feel any remorse
• 'Are you a man'?


  LM is challenging Macbeths masculinity when he claims to see banquo's ghost
• 'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'


  LM believes she can never be redeemed from this diabolical sin - juxtaposes her previous statements