Ambition

Question 1

“Glamis thou art, and cowdor shalt be”.

Answer 1

• Lady Macbeths determintation ti succedd in becoming more powerful and how she is inisted in making her husband become king.

How would a Jacobean Audience react?
- Suprise a typical Jacobean audience because women were expected to have little to or no power.

Question 2

Additional Quote: “Too full of o’th milk of human kindness”.

Answer 2

• Lady Macbeth Fears that Macbeth’s compassionate nature will blunt his ambition.
• Prevent him from achevining greatness.

“Milk”.

• Steortypical feminine quality of nurturing and kindness.
• Ironic as she is far less filled with the milk of human kindness than he is.
• Macbeth is unable to carry out this ghastly deed with his remanining kindness.

Question 3

“Unsex me now”.

Answer 3

• Lady Macbeth is mentally preparing to Kill Duncan.
• She doesn’t want to be sweet, gentle obedient, kind innocent like her feminine counterpart and sterootypical features of her sex.
• She wants to loose such qualities, in favour of blood lust and warrior like toughness.

“Make thick my blood”.

• She wants to be cold hearted.
• Wants her wounds to heal over quickly before she feels any pain.

“Unsex me now”.
- Could also refer that she is more powerful than the supernatural as she demands them to “unsex me2 implying justifying her unlady like manner