Lady Macbeth

Question 1

What can be inferred from the following quote:

Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here

Answer 1

Lady Macbeth is becoming blood lusted after hearing that Macbeth will be king and she is becoming less of a traditional Jacobean woman and wants to have her dreams fulfilled via Macbeth

Question 2

What can be inferred from the following quote:

Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t

Answer 2

D=This links a gift that James 1 received after the gunpowder plot, a medal with a serpent and flower.

Question 3

What can be inferred from the following quote:
What beast wast then, that made you break this enterprise to me?

Answer 3

Lady Macbeth is attacking macbeths masculinity in hopes to persuade him into killing Duncan.

She no longer says “thou” but says “you” when addressing Macbeth, which shows their relationship is beginning to break down.

Question 4

What can be inferred from the following quote
Tis the eyes of childhood, that fears a painted evil.

Answer 4

After calling Macbeth a coward before the murder, she accuses him of acting like a child after it, Showing her manipulative and cruel use of Macbeth to achieve her goals

Question 5

What can be inferred from the following quote:

Yet who would have the thought the old man to have so much blood in him?

Answer 5

This shows a rare moment of lady Macbeth showing remorse and sympathy for her actions, which shows her conflicted mind.