lady macbeth

• The witches pick to meet Macbeth and not Lady Macbeth which is interesting because they know that she is not evil enough.
• "Put all this night's great business in my dispatch." She agrees that she will be the one to kill the king but directly goes against this by saying "He looked too much like my father." This shows her lack of evil and that she wasn't brave or strong enough to kill Duncan
• She thinks she can be cruel enough but when it came down to it she couldn't end up doing it
• The father symbolises the patriarchy so she can't kill Duncan because she was brought up to not be allowed to go against her father. She can't even symbolically go against her father by killing Duncan.
• The witches go to Macbeth because he as the power and evil desires and not Lady Macbeth because she doesn't have the ability to go against the patriarchy, "Come you spirits, unsex me here." shows that she wanted to have the ability to go against the patriarchy by being a man but it wasn't possible.
• Women were meant to be the property of men but Macbeth treats Lady Macbeth differently, "my dearest partner in greatness." He doesn't just love her but he knows he doesn't have the ambition.
• "Vaulting ambition which leaps o'er." He knows he has the ambition and can become king but knows he will fall if he doesn't have more than just ambition. He need the planner, persuader and the one who will help him get away with him.
• She thinks she will "pour my spirits in thine ear." yet Macbeth shows Machiavellian qualities by exploiting her just until he becomes king and ends up ditching her after during the plot to kill Banquo
• She was wrong saying he was "full of the milk of human kindness" and is ironic since we know as the audience that it is the opposite and that she wasn't evil enough and had kindness towards her father that made her turn against killing Duncan.
• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are well suited as they both thing of murder immediately after the witches prophecy. They could get anything they want because they were willing to stop at nothing to achieve it.
• Lady Macbeth represents the destructive nature of ambition and how it can lead to moral corruption and psychological breakdown.
• Lady Macbeth is portrayed as ambitious and ruthless throughout the play, using her cunning and intelligence to control those around her. However, she ultimately succumbs to guilt and madness due to her actions.
• Everything goes wrong for Macbeth at the dinner after he killed Banquo in which he didn't confide in Lady Macbeth. "Thou canst say I did it." Macbeth kills Banquo which was he didn't discuss with his wife who has already arranged everything prior to allow Macbeth to get away. This shows her cunning and planning nature.
• "I have given my soul's consent" - Lady Macbeth when talking about the plan to kill King Duncan. She gives herself over completely to the idea of regicide and is fully committed to achieving their goal.
• Macbeth going to the witches instead of his wife meant that he rejected her and doesn't want her advice anymore. This could be because of his love for her and feels bad for her madness. "The Thane of Fife had a wife." suggests that she no longer sees Macbeth as the man he used to be and no longer recognises him. She reflects on her role as a women.
• She couldn't achieve greatness as a Jacobean women by having an heir and being a good wife but instead she decided to become a queen.
• At the end of the play, she suffers from guilt and madness because she failed at being a Jacobean woman. She failed as a wife as she couldn't carry an heir and she failed as a queen as she was married to a tyrant in which she was involved in the downfall of.