Macbeth: Quotes on Lady Macbeth Act 1

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  • Macbeth: Quotes on Lady Macbeth Act 1
    • 'We fail?'
      • Here Macbeth asked Lady Macbeth if the murder would be a fail but she questions this because failure is not an option for her which shows her high expectations for Macbeth
    • 'Unsex me here'
      • Lady Macbeth wants her female features stripped of her because that is the main obstacle stopping her from doing the deed herself
    • 'Look like th' innnocent flower but be the serpent under't'
      • Lady Macbeth is advising Macbeth on how to go about killing King Duncan. She encourages him to appear innocent and play the welcoming host to the king so that no one will suspect his true intention: murder.
    • 'Pour my spirits in thine ear'
      • Lady Macbeth knows that her husband will be against the idea of killing Duncan and that it will take some convincing to make him see her side. She will talk him into by putting her ideas into his head and with a clever argument directed at his weaknesses
    • 'My keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark'
      • Lady Macbeth had every intention to commit the murder herself

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