Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says "...yet I do fear thy nature, / It is too full o'th'milk of human kindness"

• That Macbeth drinks too much milk

• That she is afraid of her own nature

• That she thinks Macbeth is too softened by human kindness to do what needs to be done.

• That she thinks Macbeth is too greedy and spoiled.

What is being suggested when Lad Macbeth says 'Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it'?

• Ambition is an art

• Ambition makes you sick

• In order to be ambitious you must also be morally corrupt

• Ambition is a cure for illness

What does 'Hie thee hither' mean?

• Come quickly

• It is a salute to the dark spirits

• It shows exasperation, like saying 'For Goodness Sake!'

• You bother me

What is the next line after 'Hie Thee Hither'?

• To have thee crowned withall

• That I may pour my spirits in thine ear

• Chastise with the valour of my tongue

• Than wishest be undone.

Why does she say '...unsex me here'?

• Lady Macbeth wants her 'weakness' as a woman to be taken away

• She wishes to be divorced from Macbeth

• She wants to be a man

What are the two primary techniques in these lines "fill me from the crown to the toe topfull / Of direst cruelty"?

• personification and hyperbole

• simile and alliteration

• assonance and onomatopoeia

• metaphor and alliteration

What is the effect of this language?

"fill me from the crown to the toe topfull / Of direst cruelty"

Which summary is correct for these lines "Come, thick night, / And pall thee with dunnest smoke of hell, / That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, / To cry, 'Hold, hold.'

• Lady Macbeth wants night to come so she can sleep with Macbeth

• Lady Macbeth wants night to come and hide her wicked deed so not even heaven can see.

• She thinks night brings stupidity and fire. She wishes to kill this stupidty so it goes to hell.

We haven't read these lines yet, but Lady Macbeth says these to Macbeth once he arrives. What do you think they mean?

"...look like th'innocent flower,

But be the serpent under't."