Lady M

• Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here

  • desire for power and her willingness to abandon traditional femininity
  • Calls upon supernatural forces to rid her of any feminine qualities
  • Imagery of darkness and hellish suggests her embrace of evil and her determination to carry out her plans without hesitation
• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

  • descent into guilt into guilt and madness
  • repetition of "out, damned spot!" - inability to rid of guilt
  • Tortured conscience and psychological toll to her death
  • underestimated the consequences and enormity of her crime
• Pour my spirits in thine ear

  • Metaphor - act of influencing and manipulating
  • "Spirits" carries connotations of deceitful intentions
  • Connotations "pour" forceful and deliberate action, emphasising Lady M's determination
  • Symbolises insidious nature of temptation and moral decay that accompanies the pursuit of selfish desires
• All of Arabia's perfume will not sweeten this kittle hands


  > Metaphorical imagery- comparing inability to cleanse guilt to the inability of even the richest perfumes inability to "sweeten" the scent of guilt

  >"Arabia's perfume" - Arabia was renowned for its exotic and luxurious perfumes, even the most precious and delightful thing cannot erase the guilt

  > Symbolism of perfume- Perfume is associated to pleasantness, beauty and luxury. however it symbolises futile attempt to mask something dark and sinister
• Milk for gall