Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Act 1 Scene 5

• "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts"

Aligns herself with evil and supernatural and makes the audience see she's malicious

• "unsex me here"

To Jacobean audience here rejection of femininty would come as a shock, illustrates the harsh restraints felt by women in 11th centuary Scotland

• "come to my mother's breasts, And take my milk for gall"

To be able to commit this deed she needs to remove her femininty, any thing that makes her…