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#Act 1 scene 1 macbeth annotations mac#

By making everyone wash their hands, she is ensuring that their is no chance of any evidence being left behind. The smell and thought of bloody hands follows her everywhere. Lady Macbeth feels to the need to ensure that everyone is clean, the guilt is going to her head and making her believe everyone has blood on their hands.

She then tells the gentle woman to wash her hands. she can still continue to smell blood on her hands and she says that now perfume will ever take away that smell or make the scent go away. Lady Macbeth is sure that she can see more and more blood on her hands no matter how many times she washes them clean. In the text, lady Macbeth says " Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" This is an example of imperative voice., the forceful use of the word out in the start of the sentence. On Lady Macbeth’s hands is awaking her guilt of Banquo’s death. Not only is the doctor now aware of the reason for Lady Macbeth's behaviour, he now knows the reason behind her guilt. This scene uses symbolism, to demonstrate how the imagined blood Lady Macbeth's actions of insanity are leading to a very confused and suspicious doctor and gentle woman. Lady Macbeth is seen to rub her hands in a washing action. Like her husband, she cannot find any sleep, but she is suffering more clearly from a psychological disorder that causes her to sleepwalk. In the Scene, Act 5 Scene 1, Lady Macbeth has gone mad. There’s knocking at the gate.Ĭome, come, come, come. Look not so pale.-I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried he All the perfumes ofĪrabia will not sweeten this little hand. Hands ne'er be clean?-No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that.

Power to account?-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much Soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our

#Act 1 scene 1 macbeth annotations mac#

She is the antithesis of the ideal wife, just like Macbeth is the antithesis of the ideal soldierĪct 4.3: MAL says “dispute it like a man” and MAC says “I must also feel it as a man” Macduff shows that manhood compromises more than aggression and murder, as it has emotion/need to feel grief.Yet here's a spot! Out, damned spot! Out, I say!-One, Reinforces the idea that murder is tied to manhood – which is also the basis for her manipulation of Macbeth, as every time he wants out of the plan, she questions his manhood and emasculates him

Desperate plea for power and spirituality.

3x come = triple invocation = direct address to the supernatural, spirits,.

“Come, you spirits, Come to my breasts, come thick night”

Give me poison ⇔ she wants guilt and evil over innocence and purity.

Context: visitings of nature ⇒ menstrual cycle and her premenstrual syndrome, overwhelming her with feelings ⇒ she does not want to be a woman anymore.

Gender should not be a barrier to her success.

Wants to be more than what her gender achieves.

Whereas Macbeth is still presented as somewhat heroic.

Female = witchlike = link to supernatural = makes her evil, an easy way to be a villain.

“Metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal” She can be so confident in talking about murder Lady Macbeth’s appeal to spirits and supernatural

“Hie thee hither” – instructive nature, hurry over quickly – imperative statement ⇒ the audience is exposed to LM’s extent of control over M.

The very fact that they are equal – shows his reliance on her and acceptance of her dominating personality.

“Burned in the desire” – fiery intensity, metaphor.

“Perfectest report” – superlative, stresses how the info is accurate.

Tongue = her influence, a women’s strongest weapon.

Witchlike and manipulative – the audience would not be sympathetic to lady Macbeth.

Symbolic of her brainwashing ⇒ she is poison.

Poison someone without evidence, the same as Hamlet.

“Hie thee hither…Pour my spirits in thine ear”

Lady Macbeth’s ambition and terror ⇒ Queen – impatience

Almost like Eve’s persuasion of Adam = has to pay for her actions.First exposition where we get her role as a femme fatale (darker representation of women).CYCLICAL! (PLZ don’t forget bc its a structural point).The letter + her soliloquy is a turning point in the play ⇒ reveals the entire plot.He was also inextinguishable and well respected. Before this, Macbeth was quite chivalrous and didn’t really take the murder plot seriously.Lady Macbeth receives letter from Macbeth.