Lady Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Act 1 scene 5

“That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here…”

Answer 1

• Witchy ‘mortal thoughts’
• she wants to sell her body
• wants to be a man ‘unsex me here’
• woman are weak

Question 2

Act 1 scene 5

“Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers…”

Answer 2

• women are weak
• wants to be a man ‘take my milk’
• ‘for gall’ (poison) taking away motherhood -> demonising
• demoralising motherhood

Question 3

Act 1 scene 5

“Bear welcome in your eye, // Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, // But be serpent under’t”

Answer 3

• telling Macbeth to be sly
• undercover like a snake “serpent”
• be kind and welcoming

Question 4

Act 1 scene 6

“All our service // in every point twice done and then done double…”

Answer 4

• flattery
• easily portrays the serpent
• maybe lady Macbeth has been decietful before

Question 5

Act 1 scene 7

Ll 55-58

Answer 5

• she would harm her child than be a coward

* minipulative

Question 6

Act 1 scene 7

“We fail…”

Answer 6

• rhetorical question

* won’t fail if Macbeth is brave

Question 7

Act 2 scene 3
Lady M “Help me hence, ho!”
Macduff “Look to the lady”

Answer 7

• on purpose fainted so Macbeth didn’t say anything
• Again being a serpent
• decietful

Question 8

Act 2 scene 2

“Had he not resembled // My father as he slept, I had done’t”

Answer 8

• showing signs of weakness
• giving excuses
• rather harm her children but wouldn’t kill what resembles her father

Question 9

Act 3 scene 2
“Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks; //
Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night”

Answer 9

• lady M seems to have easily forgotten the murder

* still trying to be a serpent

Question 10

Act 3 scene 2

“What’s done is done”

Answer 10

• they never call the murder and death by those words only by it or that

Question 11

Act 3 scene 4

“Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends…”

Answer 11

• trying to be humble hostess
• too lazy to say welcome
• perhaps falling ill

Question 12

Act 5 scene 1
Ll 30 - 58
“Come, come, come, come, give me your hand; what’s done cannot be undone”

Answer 12

• gone crazed by death and hell
• speaks of evil thoughts
• but still can’t say the words murder or death
• mentally ill