Blood

• Make thick my blood stop access and passage to remorse

  1. Commanding evil spirits for emotional restraint which creates a domineering force
• Make thick my blood stop access and passage to remorse

  2. Therefore this is why she is so keen to strip away her femininity because she doesn’t associate remorse and guilt with masculinity and power
• Make thick my blood stop access and passage to remorse

  3. Furthermore, she is a femme fatale because she is manipulative and seductive and leads Macbeth to sin by saying she would “dash’d the brains out” of her unborn baby for him.
• A little water clears us of this deed Act 2

  1. Shakespeare uses litotes (under-exaggeration) because Lady Macbeth's omnipotent (all powerful) ambition blinds her to the profound mental turmoil Macbeth experiences. Almost as if she belittles him.
• A little water clears us of this deed (Act 2)

  2. Lady Macbeth's cruelness is employed when she uses litotes, the understatement 'a little' to not only trivialize their ultimate sin but to also emasculate Macbeth in order to carry on this murderous path.
• A little water clears us of this deed (Act 2)

  3. Furthermore, she uses euphemism to say that the ultimate sin, regicide, is a mere 'deed'.
• A little water clears us of this deed (Act 2)

  4. This paradoxical aspect implies how although Lady Macbeth wants to shed her femininity and become a tyrannical leader, she struggles to articulate the gravity of her sin.
• A little water clears us of this deed (Act 2)

  5. This foreshadows her melodramatic breakdown in Act 5.