Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

1. "I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way". = Lady Macbeth, after receiving her husband's letter about the witches' prophecy, expresses her fear that he isn't bad enough.

2. "Are you a man?".= Lady macbeth is wishing to provoke her husband here by provoking and stimulating.

3. "What's done cannot be undone". = Justice, morality, conscience, deceit, is she self deluded. Act 5 scene 1.

4. "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't". = Lady Macbeth, worried that Macbeth will fail to murder King Duncan, reveals a weakness while boasting of her strength.

5. "Leave all the rest to me". = controls events and her husband. Coaches him, tells him how to act when Duncan arrives.

6. "Out damn spot". = tries to rub the blood from her hands. She is clearly trying to erase the past.

7. scheming, intelligent, motivating (macbeth), confident, driven, manipulative, cruel, cerebral, persuasive, guilty, isolation, vicious woman.

8. "Fiend-like queen". = called this by Malcom. But more fitting for her character at the beginning.