What links can you make between this quotation and Macbeth being ‘too full o’ the milk of human kindness’, in terms of what they convey about Macbeth? Can you link this to the roles of men and women? What does this suggest about the levels of power between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth? How does this make you feel about Lady Macbeth? What is the impact of linking ‘ambition’ with ‘illness’? What does Lady Macbeth mean by ‘illness’ here? Why might Shakespeare have chosen this word? What link can be made between Lady Macbeth’s criticism here and Macbeth’s own fears about killing Duncan? Look at Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 7. How does this description of Macbeth compare with what we have already learnt about him? How does that make you feel about both characters? What does Lady Macbeth mean here by ‘nature’? What connotations does ‘milk’ have? What, therefore, is Shakespeare suggesting she feels about her husband? Why do you think Shakespeare links these scenes through their rhythm? When else in the play is this rhythm used? What rhythm does this section of the text use? Why do you think this is used here? Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,Īnd pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,Īnd take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,Īnd fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more So please you, it is true: our thane is coming: Is not thy master with him? who, were’t so, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem Than wishest should be undone.’ Hie thee hither,Īnd chastise with the valour of my tongueĪll that impedes thee from the golden round, That which cries ‘Thus thou must do, if thou have it Īnd that which rather thou dost fear to do That wouldst thou holily wouldst not play false,Īnd yet wouldst wrongly win: thou’ldst have, great Glamis, The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature Ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being Thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou Shalt be!’ This have I thought good to deliver Me to the coming on of time, with ‘Hail, king that The wonder of it, came missives from the king, whoĪll-hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor ’ by which title,īefore, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred To question them further, they made themselves air, Learned by the perfectest report, they have more in ‘They met me in the day of success: and I have
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