lady macbeth - macbeth

Question 1

lady macbeth think her husband is too weak to do what is necessary

Answer 1

‘Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.’

Question 2

she wants to influence her husband

Answer 2

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear.’

Question 3

she asks the spirit to give her strength and power

Answer 3

‘come you spirits… unsex me here.’

Question 4

she uses a simile to advise her husband to be duplicitous

Answer 4

‘look like th’innocent flower But be the serpent under’t.’

Question 5

lady macbeth takes charge of the plans for Duncan’s murder

Answer 5

‘leave all the rest to me.’

Question 6

lady macbeth emasculates her husband. saying he is not man enough to kill Duncan

Answer 6

‘when you durst do it, then you were a man.’

Question 7

lady macbeth couldn’t kill Duncan because he looked like her father

Answer 7

‘had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done’t.’

Question 8

lady macbeth thinks it will be easy to hide her guilt

Answer 8

‘a little water clears us of this deed.’

Question 9

macbeth doesn’t involve his wife in Banquo’s murder

Answer 9

‘be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.’

Question 10

lady macbeth goes mad with guilt, washing her hands compulsively

Answer 10

‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand, o,o,o.’