This quote could be an indication that the Macbeths once had a child that passes away and thus the audience should feel nothing but sympathy for LM “I have given suck and know how tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me” If this is true then all the blame should be on Macbeth’s head and not LM’s This indicates that it was actually Macbeth who proposed the idea of killing Duncan first and not LM. “What beast was’t then that made you break this enterprise to me.” LM had no choice but to prop up her husband and compels him to do what was necessary to achieve his ambition.
Her suspicions are proved correct when Macbeth loses his courage (“We will proceed no further in this business”). “but screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail” It is because LM is aware of M’s deepest desires that she sets about plotting the murder of Duncan. Furthermore, it is clear that her husband has cowardly tendencies. She clearly saw his ambition after reading his letter he had written after immediately hearing the witches prophecies. It can be argued that LM only wanted the best for her husband.
#Lady macbeth quotes full
“rapt in the wonder of it””yet I do fear thy nature, it is to full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” Thus, it is her words and actions that enable Macbeth to become evil. When he reacts in an outrageous manner to the ghost of Banquo she tries desperately to explain it away. Her attempt to cover up Macbeth’s behaviour at the banquet. “Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth.” It is she who returns to the scene of Duncans murder to place the daggers at the drugged guards’ sides. She continuously covers up for Macbeth, allowing his to continue down his murderous path. Her thoughts and actions are completely reprehensible These were innocent men who she deliberately set about to drug and set up. She paints the grooms faces with blood and seals their fate. “I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seems their guilt” She pleads with Macbeth to put on a show for the quests who will attend their banquet. “sleek o’er your rugged looks be bright and jovial among your guests tonight” She reacts perfectly to the news that Duncan has died. LM shows astonishing ease with trickery when a moment calls for pretence. She tells Macbeth to begin a pretence of loyalty in front of Duncan. “Look like an innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”Ĭontinually emphasises the need for false appearances. Her use of doubles in her speech clearly links her to the witches and their evil ways “double double toil and trouble. She puts on a show of welcoming Duncan that is sickening for the audience to watch. Her capacity for cunning cannot be overestimated. She gleefully greets Duncan at the castle. “All pur service in every point twice done, and then done double.” This is the central reason why she is traditionally borne most of the blame for Macbeth’s actions. She refuses to countenance Macbeth’s change of heart. “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself?” She accuses him of cowardice.Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth. LM uses reprehensible and underhand tactics in order to manipulate her husband into attaining the throne. “Like the poor cat i’ the adage””When you durst do it, then you were a man.”
She planned to persuade his to commit regicide from the moment she read his letter. Shows her intentions were clear form the outset. She intentionally and cruelly manipulates Macbeth into committing regicide. “That I may put my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue.” “You shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch” She is possibly more ambitious than he is It is she who decides that murder is the only way for her husband to attain the throne. “Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.” It could be argues that she puts herself in the path of evil and deserves everything she gets. Lasy Macbeth calls on the spirits of even to overtake her. “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
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