Lady Macbeth

Question 1

“Come thee spirits, unsex me here” Method?

Answer 1

Direct address

Question 2

“Come thee spirits unsex me here” analysis.

Answer 2

Lady Macbeth does not want to be a woman- in order to be more powerful-introduces her subversion of expectations,
yet later she asks the spirits to take away her guilt, but these spirits don’t and guilt ends up being her down fall- never truly in control.

Question 3

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” Method?

Answer 3

Metaphor + Allusion

Question 4

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” Analysis?

Answer 4

Lady Macbeth advises Macbeth to be faithful to Duncan, shows her subversion through manipulation, -Allusion to the serpent which was the root to evil, if Macbeth is to look like the root to evil, the evil itself born from the serpent is Lady Macbeth.

Question 5

“Take my milk for gall” Method

Answer 5

Metaphor probably

Question 6

“Take my milk for gall” analysis

Answer 6

Asking for the spirits to take her breast milk which connotes natural, nurturing femininity to be replaced with gall: a type of bile -bitter and dark. -shows her subversion of maternal expectations

Question 7

“Dash’d the brains out” metaphor