Lady Macbeth

Cooking

Cleaning

Reading a letter

Writing a letter

weakness

greatness

in crime

masculinity

milk

orange juice

tea

coffee

Crow

Eagle

Owl

Raven

To kill Duncan for her

To be 'unsexed'

To set up a meeting for witches

Because she is pure evil

As a woman she has no real power beyond the domestic sphere and as she considers Macbeth to have too many 'feminine' qualities she needs more of the qualities required to do what needs to be done to secure the throne

She is actually the fourth witch and has been controlling Macbeth all along

She asks to be palled in the 'dunnest smoke of hell' to hide from heaven/God. She therefore understands how she will be viewed and wants to hide herself from divine judgement.

She prays for a peaceful death for Duncan

Lady Macbeth is the perfect woman and just like Eve is a woman who can be trusted to do the right thing.

Macbeth is like the snake tempting Lady Macbeth with thoughts of power

The Adam and Eve story involved a snake and Lady M is like a snake as she is so slippery

Lady Macbeth is like an Eve figure in the play tempting her husband into giving into temptation. Eve is often blamed for the downfall of humanity. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's downfall is similar.

Let's kill Duncan with poison

We will proceed no further in this business

She refers to infanticide: the epitome of evil. It is made the worse by the fact that she refers to the baby 'smiling' which makes her description of 'dashing' the brains out seem all the more violent and disturbing. She is willing to sacrifice her maternal instincts.

She is referring to the baby she had by her first marriage and is telling Macbeth that she would be willing to sacrifice that child so that the bloodline would be pure in terms of who gets to move up to the throne.

You have murdered sleep

You are a monster

A little water clears us of this deed

Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck

Lady Macbeth becomes reliant on Macbeth and Macbeth becomes the dominant figure in the relationship

Lady Macbeth becomes more and more powerful

innocent, chuck

guilty, bird

innocent, partner

innocent, serpent

She now speaks in prose

She now speaks in verse

She is a speaking Greek

Mother

Fiend-like queen

Serpent

Witch