lady Macbeth

lady Macbeth

1. "come you spirits the tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"

   • she is calling on the supernatural to come and help her
   • she sees her femmininty as a weekness and wants to be able to get ride of it
   • women of the time were meant to leave the fighting to men but she wants to be able to kill the king herself
     • she wants to be able to kill the king but beacue of her feminity she is unable to
   • she is ready to kill the king if macbeth carn't
   • she will get ride of her own feminity to get what she wants
   • spirits= ghosts
   • the supernatural wil come and help her be more evil and let her losse her feminity
   • the audiance wouldnt appreaicated her wishing the super natural will help her
     • they would kill withc at the time
     • didnt like the supernatural as they thought nohing could have a higher power than a god or a king
   • i could show her to be evil just like the withces

2. "are you a man"

   • she is trying to manipuate macbeth
   • macbeth role relises on being brave and corageous
   • she is threatining Macbeths masculinity to get what she wnast
   • she is trying to bellittle macbeths masulinity
   • although she isnt doing the violence she is showing that she wanst vilence to happen
     • she is keen on killing the king
     • wnats macbeth to commit a violence act

3. "i am afraid they have awakened and 'tis not done yet

   • she is aware that what she is doing id wrong
   • she wants power so mutch she doesnt care how callous her actions are
     • she doesnt care the consequence of her actions
   • her and macbeth could get introuble as neither of them have as mutc powerr as the king does
   • she is ingnoring the fact she feels guilty
   • she is able at the beigging to suppress her doubts
   • she really wnats the power

4. "naught's had all's spent"

   • she is starting to fell lonely
   • her and macbeth have "spent everting to become what they are
   • you cna see a difference beween her and macbteh
   • she is starting to feel guilty
   • she isnt sure wether what she has done is worth it
   • maybe her ambition wasnt as good as she thought it was
   • lady macbteh is becoming remorfull while macbeth is becomeing power hungry
   • nither her or macbteh are truely happy
   • believes there are many consequences for what she has done

5. "here the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little had

   • she is becoming guilty
   • she carnt gte ride of her guilt
   • women should stick to there social norms as they cartn handle the consequences
     • they shouldnt get power
   • no matter what she will always be guilty
   • she is showing her guilt in a private setting unlike macbeth who showed his guilt in a pubilic banquet
     • show that men were more allowed to share there opinions on things even though they werent nessisarily ment to show weekness
   • her ambition has lea to her downfall
   • the audience could start to feel bad for her as she has been ruined over the idea of power
   • she is sleepwlaking so no one else sees
     • sleep= innocence
   • she comforted macbeth