“Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t” - biblical reference to adam & eve + presents macbeth as feminine = masculine mindset of ambition later on in the play

”come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall” - milk and gall look similar and both come out of a women → good and evil in all people. asks to remove all goodness and make it evil = would look bad on the eyes of a jacobean audience

“had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.” - is inconsistent as she’s ready to kill her child but not her father? can’t commit patricide but asks macbeth to commit regicide. shows she’s not ready to kill duncan - hypocrisy as well as humanity being shown