(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Because of your use of violence you are not able to sleep. | You lack the season of all natures, sleep. |
(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) This is why Lady Macbeth couldn’t kill Duncan herself. First time we see her “soft side.” | Has he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it. |
(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Lady Macbeth finds the guilt easy to get rid of. | A little water clears us of this deed. How easy it is, then. |
(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Lady Macbeth says that she has finished the plan but is not ashamed or afraid like her husband. | My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. |
(Lady Macbeth soliloquy) She thinks Macbeth is too kind to be king. He doesn’t have the killer instinct to get to the top. | Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness. |
(Lady Macbeth soliloquy) Asks the spirits to dehumanize or dewomanize her. She wants to be free of any sympathy or weakness. | Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. |
(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth how he should make sure his face should not be readable when he goes through with the murder. | Your face…is as a book where men may read strange matters. |
(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to look innocent but strike quickly like a serpent. | Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it. |
(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Encourages Macbeth one more time to kill Duncan. This also refers to a lute(a guitar like instrument). She is also, in a way, saying she is playing Macbeth. | But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we will not fail. |
Lady Macbeth Ambition quotes
August 15, 2019