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Macbeth character: Lady Macbeth - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth character: Lady Macbeth
First impressions
Unusually eaqual
determined to fulfil her destiny
strong belief in spirits which mirrors witches
Language
"My dearest partner of greatness
"milk of human kindeness"
"Pour my spirits in thine ear"
Soliloquy
wants to lose her feminine qualities
masculine character - "my battlements"
Language
"unsex me here"
"take my milk for gall"
"thick night" "hell" "dark"
Meets Macbeth
flattery designed to manipulate
complete each other's iambic pentameter
euphemisms - understand each other very well
She interrupts him - clearly more powerful.
Language
"Great Glamis"
"Leave all the rest to me"
Manipulation
emotional blackmail - questions his love for her
bullying - questions his masculinity
shock - says she would have killed their baby
Language
"Such I account thy love"
"Coward in thine own esteem"
"Dashed the brains"
After the Murder
She couldn't kill him - looked like her father
prioritieses clearing evidence
reassures and scolds him for being 'weak'
She only sees physical reminders
Language
"infirm of purpose"
"I shame to wear a heart so white
"A little water clears us of this deed"
LM and M relationship 3.2
more distant
calls him "king" and "my lord"
still influential on macebth
She isn't included in Macbeth's plans
He is reliant on witches
Language
"Why do you keep alone?"
"What's done, is done"
"Make our faces vizards"
Banquo's Ghost
first implies Macbeth is ill
questions masculinity again
send everyone home
must be upset after she saves M and he sides with witches
Language
"My lord is often thus"
"What, quite unmanned in folly"
"But go at once"
Betimes I will to the weird sisters"
Her Final Scene
Consumed by remorse
Sleepwalking - witchcraft
Intense washing of hands
Feels guilt for other murders too
Contrast to earlier
More feminine
Language
"Out damned spot"
"where is she now" (ToF wife)
"all the perfumes of Arabia"
Legacy
"this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"
"fiend" - supernatural, hell
Thought To be a suicide