lady macbeth quotes

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act 1, scene 5 unsex me here
this is her vivid and powerful way of saying how she wants spirits to ***** her feminine weakness and invest her in masculine resolve. she believes being a women holds her back from furfilling " direst cruelty"
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too full of the milk of human kindness
lady amcbeth beleieves macbeth is too kiind and nurturing, her interests are revolved around violence and blood shed.- she uses a sort of blackmail to try and peruade macbeth and believe that he doesnt fill typical heroism. little t i m a
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be the innocent flower/ be the sepent undernt it
appearence is an important aspect of this quote: she is saying to macbeth to appear as though he is innocent, yet be ready to strike and commit evil underneath his vail of lies
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murdering ministers
the alliteration of the harsh letter m highlight the harshness in lady macbeths tone; quite the opposite to a women of her era. she feels great resentment for her womenly qualities, and believes her percieved innocence is a crime
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illness
she describes macbeths personality as unwell and an aberation from the norm-nice! she believes is je is weak and vulnerable yet only temperarily- she can cure him by " pouring thine spirits into thy ear"
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pour thine spirits into thine ear
adam and eve- serpent with fruit convincing her to take the forbidden fruit.  Both the serpent and Lady Macbeth know exactly what to say to achieve their desired outcome. she believes she can inflence macbeths kindness with her evil manipulative mann
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act 2 scene 2 daggers
macbeth is terrified of the imges of daggers, yet shakespeatre juxtaposes lm and m as she goes, with confidence to plant the daggers on the servents.
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so poorly in your thoughts
once again with the illness theme: she believes macbeths kindness is of a vulnerable and weak state, and that he simply needs to man up to get with her evil level!
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act 3, scene 2 whats done is done
her advice sophisicated and stturn, yet she isnt rying to be profound, yet merley trying deal with her husbands uilty hallunications with the blandest pallitive. repition of done suggests she is sturn and has had enough
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act 3, scene 4 are you a man?
lady macbeth uses rhetorical questions here once agin to try and make macbeth feel bad about his weaknesses, she is tring to crush his pride by saying he acts too feminine
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very pianting of your fear
she is angry at her husband for showing fear and she believes like a painting, its not difficult to wash away these silly hallucinations. this is ironic as later on in the play she is sickened with guilt
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act 5, scene 1 out, damned spot!
ealier in the play she had control, yet now she has lost all sanity. she is completely deranged with guilt and no wonly sees blood and pain.
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oh, oh, oh!
the desperate langauge suggests she us weak and now mentally disturbed. she is injured and obsessed with guilt and lone of her sentences logically make sense together. her hysterial is present
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what, will these hands never be clean?
this contasts with ealier on in the play when she claims that only a little water is needed to wash of blood. now, the blood is symbolic of her hysteric madness and guilt. she is asking for help, and her what/will language is desperate
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prose
in her final speech, lady macbeth does not speak in prose, indictating her fall from nobility and perfection( blank verse)
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