Lady Macbeth

Cards (6)

  • ‘Come you spirits unsex me here’

    calls on supernatural to strip her of feminine weakness and fill her with cruelty
  • Questions masculinity
    questions Macbeth’s masculinity to manipulate him
  • “Out damned spots“

    tormented by visions of blood on her hands, symbolising her inescapable guilt
  • ”Noughts had ,All spent”
    acknowledges that their ambition have not brought happiness , only discontent and paranoia
  • Beginning to end
    transforms from a ambitious strong-willled to a guilt- ridden mentally disturbed to highlight destructive effect of unchecked ambition and moral corruption.
  • “Look like the innocent flower but be they serpent under it”
    advises Macbeth to deceive Duncan