• Macbeth Quotes
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  • Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.
    Metaphor, Manipulates Macbeth by taunting his manhood/masculinity as being too weak or feminine.
  • Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood… Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, …Come, thi
    Removing feminine parts to become strong (believes feminine traits are weak) Demonises women – manipulative and sacrilegious. Symbolic nature of blood
  • You must leave this… ….but in them Nature’s copy’s not eterne. (Act 3 Scene 2)
    Demonstrates that she wishes to leave things up to fate OR doesn’t want a direct hand in killing Banquo. Symbolic reference to 'not mortal' - 'not eterne'
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