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Lady Macbeth |
"Your hand, your tongue; look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent undern't" The use of the metaphor shows Lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth telling him to act innocent on the surface but be betray King Duncan and kill him. "serpent" = religious imagery |
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Macbeth |
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" Macbeth is hallucinating and it is also a motif (there's daggers throughout the whole play, so its a motif) throughout the play. IT relates to the theme of death and foreshadows when Macbeth finds himself with the dagger. Also the rhetorical question implies he is questioning his actions. |
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Lady Macbeth |
"come spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here" Lady Macbeth is calling the supernatural spirits. The phrase "unsex me here" is Lady Macbeth wanting to exchange gender roles, so instead of being the weak lady she wants to have the qualities of a man. She believes men are stronger than woman. |
