Character Study: Lady Macbeth

The Evil of Lady Macbeth

“Quotes”

• “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.” (1.3.144-146)

• “Make thick my blood, stop the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visiting's of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep piece between the effect of it!” (1.5.44-47)

Her Power to Influence Others

“Quotes”

• “We will proceed no further in this business” (1.7.26-28).

• “Art thou afeard to be the to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteemist the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem” (1.7,39-43).

The Ultimate deterioration

“Quotes”

• “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.” (5.1, 35-40)

• “Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. Look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ’s grave.” (5.1, 61-63)

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