Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

1. Deceptive

   • Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't
     • Act 1 scene 6

2. Manipulative

   • or Cunning
   • Had he not resembled my farther as he slept, I had done't
     • Act 2 scene 2
     • She's giving a reason to keep the blood of her hands. letting M do her dirty work. manipulation

3. Powerless

   • Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, stop up th'access and passage to remorse
     • Act 1 scene 5
     • Come you evil spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
       • Come to my woman's breasts take my milk for gall, you mud'ring ministers
         • milk has connotations of innconce and kindness
           • while gall has connotations of bitter, cruel, foul
             • Lm whishes to take away her kindness and replace it for cruel bitterness
         • Metaphor of: take my milk for gall
       • unsex me: take away her feminity as she feels as if it will stop her from being powwerfull
         • her feminity makes her weak in her mind
       • evil spirits: LM is unable to make herself powerful so she calls upon the supernatural. shes not powerful mentally to do this
     • She wishes not to feel regret, kindness, remorse, sadness, guilt
       • She whishes to be cruel, bitter, powerfull, villin like, ruthless, fiend like
     • Aliteration of toe topfull
     • Metaphor of: make thick my blood
       • thick blood having connotations of strong and powerful. able to survive, not weak
   • Needs to be powerful to be able to persuade Macbeth into killing Duncan for the crown

4. Guilt

5. Hysterical / Manic

6. Demanding

   • Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them
     • Give me the daggers
       • Demand, she's ordering Macbeth around while he's a wreck.

7. Ambitious