act 1 - scene 5

"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

she is determined/ forcefully

"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