Lady macbeth quotes

    Cards (19)

    • i do fear thy nature is too full of the milk of human kindness
      feminising macbeth
    • "look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't" - lady macbeth
    • unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty
    • Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it
    • that i may pour my spirits in thine ear
      she is more ambitious than Macbeth, wants to help him
    • point twice done and then done double
      mirroring witches language
    • be so much more than the man
      challenges M
    • I would.. have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had i so sworn 

      very violent, against common stereotypes of women. demeaning M
    • What cannot you and i perform upon the unguarded Duncan

      tempting/bribing M
    • Leave all the rest to me
    • Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't
      can kill a baby, but not a man who resembles her father? Starting to show weakness
    • consider it not so deeply
      reassuring herself and M
    • Infirm of purpose!
      annoyed, chastising M
    • A little water clears us of this deed
      How easy it is then!

      ironic as she ends up going mad over the blood on her hands
    • lady Macbeth becomes scared of Macbeth and his overpowering ambition in Act 3
    • 'she has light by her continually, tis' her command
      LM is now scared of the dark- D's murder happened in the dark, once called upon darkness
    • Out, damned spot! out, I say!

      Parallel
    • look not so pale

      APPERANCE VS REALITY. gives herself instructions
    • to bed, to bed what's done cannot be undone
      MOTIF OF SLEEP. guilty