Lady Macbeth Flashcards

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‘Look like th’innocent flower’

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L - met.
Hide true emotions in order to fool and not attract suspicion.
C - serpent see as evil/ garden of eden

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3 - ‘too full of the milk of human kindness’

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L - sim.
Make her masculine - reversing the stereotypes of femininity in order to become dominant
- wants to become ruthless

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3 - ‘Take my milk for gull’

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R - shocking to J audience as at the time the expectations of women where to show feminineity and material characteristic’s.

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TS1: The character of Lady Macbeth drives the plot forward as she manipulates Macbeth into committing regicide.

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Man to make him commit the act

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TS2: Lady Macbeth develops the theme of the supernatural in the play, invoking spirits to assist her plans.

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Uses them to help her plans

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TS3: Lady Macbeth inverts traditional gender roles, appearing assertive and dominant and mocking effeminate behaviour.

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Mocks him by flipping gender roles (traditionally)

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TS4: At the end of the play, when Lady Macbeth is plagued with guilt and commits suicide, she illustrates Shakespeare’s propagandist message that those who
commit regicide will be punished.

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Scare J audience after gunpowder plot

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3 - ‘Like the poor cat i’th’adge?’

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L - sim.
Me wants the crown like the cat wants the fish but he doesn’t want to get his hands to get muddy like the cat and the water
C - gender roles - should act brave and strong but he is too afraid of consequences if he commits the murder

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1- ‘Plucked my nipple…dashed his brains out’

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L - v. ‘Dashed’
Violet verb of destruction
C - inverts maternal norms
Mothers are to raise their children and not harm them
Inverts cultural norms of mothers being gentle + nurturing
R - shocked and horrified of the violent image

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