Lady macbeth

• Femme fatale:


  seductive + manipulative woman who can lure men into danger/sin -is a common trope within literature + poetry. She is thus a femme fatal and she isnt only manipulative but rejects her womanhood Motherhood is a typical trope of a femme fatale
• Imperative:

  The imperative ‘make thick my blood‘ illustrates how she commands for emotional restraint and callous indifference. Recognising that aspirations for tyranny requires a detattachment from femininity and the accompanying emotions, lady Macbeth seeks with herself these elements to prove the way for her ruthless ambition
• ‘Make thick my blood, stop up th’ acess and passage to remorse’ (act 1)
• This forshadows her descent into a melodramatic state of insanity and act 5, where she grapples with an inability to fully grasp the enormality of the sins committed
• Euphemism: 


  She employees euphemism to characterise regicide as a mere,

  ’deed’ highlighting a paradoxical aspects of her character. Despite her ambition to shed feminine traits and embrace tyrannical brutality, she struggles to articulate the gravity of the henious act.
• Her callousness becomes apparent as she employs litodes, such as the understatement ‘a little,‘ not only to trivialise the act of murder but also to emasculate Macbeth, encouraging him to further along his murderous path
• Litodes:


  Lady Macbeth’s omnipotent ambitions blind her to the profound mental turmoil Macbeth is experiencing
• ‘A little water clears us of this deed’ (act2)