Lady Macbeth

Question 1

‘Look like th’innocent flower’

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

3 - ‘Take my milk for gull’

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Man to make him commit the act

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Uses them to help her plans

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Mocks him by flipping gender roles (traditionally)

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Scare J audience after gunpowder plot

Question 8

3 - ‘Like the poor cat i’th’adge?’

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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