Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

1. Ruthless

   • Will do anything to get what she wants
     • "Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this."
       • Describes how she would kill a baby she was caring for if she had sworn to do it, similar to how Macbeth had sworn that he was going to kill Duncan.

2. Ambitious

   • Unchecked Ambition
     • Kill Duncan

3. Manipulative

   • Insults Macbeth (says he is not masculine)
     • "What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now. Does unmake you."
       • States that Macbeth is not masculine because he is such a coward since he is to afraid to kill Duncan, while earlier he planned to do it.
     • "Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ” Like the poor cat i' th' adage?"
       • Basically says that Macbeth is like the poor cat in the old story.
   • Makes the plan super easy for Macbeth
     • "Soundly invite him—his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep Their drenchèd natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? What not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?"
       • Describes the plan; get two of Duncan's servants drunk enough so they pass out, then they can do whatever they want to Duncan. After they will blame the murder on the drunken servants.

4. Greedy

   • Determined to get the power she wants and will do anything to get it.

5. Macbeth

   • Manipulates and controls Macbeth so she can get what she wants
   • Married

6. Insane

7. Violence

   • Resorts to murder and violence to get what she wants
     • Kills Duncan