all lady Macbeth quotes

"I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness"

Show that Macbeth values Lady Macbeth .

"Partner"

equal » showing Macbeth belives he s equal to Lady Macbeth

"Yet do i fear thy nature, it is too full o'th'milk of human kindness"

shows that lady Macbeth belives that Macbeth is too kind

"Thou wouldst be great, at not without ambition but without the illness should attend it"

lady Macbeth is a more ruthless character

"that I Amy pour my spirts in thine ear"

metaphor : lady Macbeth is going to manipulate

"which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal"

Jacobean belief in fate & supernatural

"the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlement "

'Raven' : omen of death

Evoking supernatural elements

"Make thick my blood"

Metaphor : wants to feel nothing

"And pall thee in the funnest smoke of hell"

biblical allusion » willing to be contend / dammed

"O never shall sun that morrow see. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters"

Lady Macbeth has made her mind up

doesnt want Macbeth to show his worries and concerns over the act

"Look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"

metaphor = want Macbeth to be duplicitous ( 2 faced )

serpent = biblical link to the devil

"leave all the rest to me'

imperative (command) = lady Macbeth in control / assertive

use of a candle as a prop

light symbolises safety, hope, etc

"She has light by her continually. It's her command"

Shows that lady Macbeth is afraid, insecure and worried

Significance of LM consistently washing her hands

idiom - 'blood on your hands' = guilty

hallucinating = guilt

"out dammed spot! Out!"

Repetition : desperation

Shouts the phrase showing her desperation as guilt take over

"hell is murky "

Shows how LM is now worried about her consequences that will follow

Imagery (hell)

"yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

LM isn't able to escape the thoughts & memory of her crime and actions

"what, will these hands ne'er be clean?"

Juxtapose with earlier » she told M water would of been able to easily wash away his worrys / guilt

"all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"

hyperbole = LM can never forget / cleanse her guilt

"Needs she the divine than the physician"

she beyond even human help

Why does he do this?

To mirror her mental state = broken, fragmented and unclear

LM language seems disjointed?

What type of speech does LM use in this bit which differs from normality?

Prose

How does LM's speech differ from poetic speech?

LM is not speaking in a poetic way.

What is the tone of LM's speech?

It is not calm or measured.

Enter the GHOST OF BANQUO and sits in Macbeth's place

Physical manifestation of guilt

context point = ghosts / spirits in Jacobean era

"sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth"

calm, radiational, keep order

juxtaposition to Macbeth

"You do not give the cheer"

lady Macbeth is calm and composed

"Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth"

Calm, rational, keeping order, juxtaposition over Macbeth

trying to keep Macbeths hallucinations in control

"Are you a man?"

Pulled him aside

Telling Macbeth to be more masculine

"Owl that shrieked"

evil and sinister behaviour

"I have drugged their possets"

Lady Macbeth is in control

"I laid their daggers ready; "

She is architect of the murder

Shows that she is in control

"Had he not resembled my father as he slept"

lady Macbeth would of killed him but he looked to much to like her father

"Infirm of purpose"

lady Macbeth attacking Macbeths character

Unfit to carry out his job

"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil"

metaphor : lady Macbeth is harsh

lady Macbeth attacks Macbeth masculinity patronising

comparing Macbeth to a child and saying that he shouldn't be scared

"my hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white"

metaphor emasculating Macbeth = coward

"we will proceed no further in this business"

macbeth is being firm and saying no to the idea

attempting to put an end to the idea

" [?] … [?] … [?]"

lady Macbeth interrogates him using a lot of questions

showing that she is in control / controlling the scene

"Art thou afeard"

Shows how lady Macbeth is manipulating Macbeth » she os trying to emasculate him and play on his insecurities

"What beast wasnt then that made you break this enterprise to em? When you durst do it, then you were a man"

'Break' : attacks his sense of honour

Only if he kills then he will become a real man

The scene shows lady Macbeth as ruthless and violent

"How tener ' tis to love the babe that milks me … "

Creates emotional manipulation

"bring forth men-children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males"

Macbeth belives lady Macbeth is displaying masculine traits

"I am settled and bend up"

lady Macbeth has been successful overall