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GCSE English Literature – Macbeth – Lady Macbeth Key Quotes (Act 1 Only) Quote AMBITIOUS (and fears Macbeth’s lack of) “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is to full o’th’ milk of human kindness, / To catch the nearest way” Feels bound by Societal Normal Constraints “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full” Act 1 Scene 5 Technique / Device Analysis / Zoom METAPHOR – to compare milk (feminine) to human kindness She is unsure how Macbeths purity and innocence will interfere with their murder plan. ‘Nearest way’ suggests ambition and determined to gain the title quickly, and she is impatient? Emphasises her ambition, and that she is so driven that she ‘fears’ (Verb) their failure. IMAGERY / SYMBOLISM of Societal Beliefs about women (imagery of purity and innocence surrounds) SYMBOLISM OF MASCULINITY – she is trying to break away from her gender, to become man (what with?) SEMANTIC FIELD OF IMPERATIVES – commanding and controlling (unlike) Act 1 Scene 5 Seeks violent “*Fill me, from the crown to the EVIL IMAGERY – “direst”, “cruelty”, toe top-full* / Of direst cruelty. “blood” suggest evil of her. but feels like Make thick my blood” ALLITERATION of T – Emphasises and she cannot as she is MIGHT NOT USE BOTH (ABOVE) Act 1 Scene 5 Seeks not to “Come to my woman’s breasts, be women / / and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,” repels Act 1 Scene 5 expectations “Come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, / That my keen knife see not the wound it makes” Act 1 Scene 5 Women seen as inferior in the patriarchal system of the times DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS gone against by her planning to kill (evil ect.) THEME of ‘Ambition and Power’ explored – she is very much so She wants to break away from the Lose feminine façade, supports determination. mould of women (views and ideas). She too calls on evil spirits, like the Witches, and Believes in ideas of SUPERNATURAL, could suggest fewer dissimilitude’s between e.g. Witches, not uncommon of the them (her being perceived as Witch-like, evil???) time (who possessed ‘evil’ power) Crown (noun) forebodes to their task/aim/goal She feels masculine, is female??? Calls on spirits to take away her blood (feelings of pity) highlights how she wants to be so encompassed by this new ‘cruelty’ Crown (noun) forebodes to their task/aim/goal SEMANTIC FIELD / IMAGERY of Women – that she wants to lose to achieve ‘murdering ability’ ALLITERATION of ‘M’ Sound – Creates snarling sound appropriate to the meaning (striking emotional ideas) Implies inability to commit murder as a female Supernatural that can remove her body parts? Gall (noun, POISON) sense of evil, reference to “M..Ms” refers ‘angels of death’ (she to become) “Woman’s” (noun) suggests its not hers, that he identifies adversely to them, should not be hers? PERSONIFICATION – Knife cannot see what it is doing, emphasises evil of actions and her supernatural beliefs Themes / Context SUPERNATURAL (Believes that spirits can take away the good) SUPERNATURAL – Not uncommon to share similar beliefs, fits the norms and still believes in their ‘powers’. Wants to break away from the Elizabethan/Jacobean societal expectation of nurturing a child Deceitful and “Look the th’innocent flower, / Promotes But be the serpent under’t” this to Macbeth (by Act 1 Scene 5 ambition) “was the hope drunk / wherein Has repugnance you dressed yourself? Halth it slept since?” to Macbeth’s cowardice Act 1 Scene 7 SYMBOLISM / IMAGERY – Creates Suggests juxtaposed ideas of who they are, and visual imagery of flower (and the that Macbeth need to be that (but also hide it) positive connotations), and serpent Suggest for Macbeth to be deceitful (command) (with the evil/negative connotations) Highlights dual nature that Macbeth has/hides JUXTAPOSITION – Contrasting ideas Serpent (noun) created emphasis of evil (etc.), of juxtaposed people (dual nature) Temptation and treachery (Equivocation), METAPHOR – compare his feelings serpents have link to biblical story of Adam/Eve METAPHOR – Compares to Macbeth Asking if he was drunk with the ambition he had (that he once had it – but now gone) when he formerly promised her. RHETORICAL QUESTIONS – keeps Thinks he was lying/faking, (ie. he got dressed?) interrogating Macbeth, pressuring Offended and hurt that he lied/changed his mind. him to follow her plan (intimidating – He can dress off/on this ambition (ALT deceitful) uncommon for women) Slept (verb) emphasises his lack of ambition into PERSONIFIED – Ambition/hope sleep? their plan, and that there one was such strong “That made you break this enterprise to me? / When you durst do it, then you were a man” Act 1 Scene 7 Remorseless brutality and loyal (fuelled by ambition) “I have given suck, and know / How JUXTOPOSITION – “Tender”, “love”, tender tis’ to love the babe that milks “babe”, “smiling” contrast with me. / I would, while it was smiling in violence of “plucked”, “dashed”, my face, / Have plucked my nipple “boneless” – dark for reader. from his boneless gums, / And IMAGERY – Graphic statement of dashed the brains out” violence about herself and the extent of her ambition/devotion Act 1 Scene 7 “We shall make our griefs and clamour roar / Upon his death?” Act 1 Scene 7 CONTEXT OF SIMILES – Medal to commemorate Gunpowder Plot had same depictions (serpent and flower), well known to the audience, foreshadows deception of the plot GENDER ROLES – She is expected to be not commanding, but is THEME of AMBITION - Macbeth formally had it, she does now too, and is annoyed he has lost it CODE OF CHIVALRY – Expected to be ‘protect weak, live by honour/glory and never refuse challenge’ – Macbeth refuses and she offended Enterprise connotes the idea that this is all a ‘business transactions’, and that it desensitise and inhumane lacking the way she thinks Suggests that only when he had ambition to kill the King, he only was ‘a man’ then, not anymore Disrupts typical idea of what a Willing to kill her own child to fulfil a promise mother would thought to be like (extremely brutal and demonstrates contradiction between her and husband morality, APEPARANCE VS REALITY – Present as normal women, however reality established lack of contiguity between them) is violent and sadistic concepts) Defame and make Macbeth seem unmanly MEN AND WOMEN – Men expected to Tender (adjective) emphasises innocence, and retuned use of ‘milk’ to represent feminine ideas be violent, not women, so difference She deserts the Elizabethan/Jacobean societal expectation of nurturing a child