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Sparknotes Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

Lady Macbeth Speech

LADY MACBETH

Take good care of him. He brings great news.

The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

30 Under my battlements. 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.

Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

35 That no compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

40 You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the 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!”

Source: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/macbeth/page_32.epl

This is an very important passage in Macbeth. This is Lady Macbeth completly hardening her heart and embracing her role in the plot to kill Duncan. She is casting aside her womanhood and turning to violence.

That overall is correct. But just as a note to add for the first question, she's saying that the only way to be a man is to be cruel. Men are full of cruelty.

I have no idea if this will help...But I offer my short version of Macbeth...hopefully act 1 scene 5 is there...If it isn't what you need you could try

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When we first hear of Macbeth, he has just cut an enemy open ("unseamed") from belly button ("nave") to throat ("chops"). The king shouts "Oh valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"

At their party, a witch shows her friends the chopped-off thumb of a ship's pilot wrecked on his way home. A witch who's angry with a lady who was munching chestnuts and wouldn't share them plans to get back at her by causing a nine-day storm to make her sailor husband miserable. If the ship hadn't been under divine protection, she'd kill everybody on board. Another witch offers to help with a bit of magical wind. The angry witch appreciates this and says, "You're such a nice person."

Lady Macbeth, soliloquizing, prays to devils to possess her mind, turn the milk in her breasts into bile (!), and give her a man's ability to do evil.

Lady Macbeth b-tches at her husband and ridicules his masculinity in order to make him commit murder. She talks about a smiling baby she once nursed and what it would have been like to smash its brains out -- she would prefer this to having a husband who is unwilling to kill in cold blood. Read the passage again and think about exactly what Lady Macbeth is saying.

Lady Macbeth keeps a strong sedative in the house. She doesn't mention this to her husband even when they are planning a murder. She just uses it. Attentive readers will suspect she has had to use on Macbeth in the past.

The Macbeths murder a sleeping man, their benefactor and guest, in cold blood, then launder their bloody clothes. They smear blood on the drugged guards, then slaughter them to complete the frame-up.

Horses go insane and devour each others' meat while they are still alive.

Everybody knows Macbeth murdered Duncan, but they make him king anyway. Virtuous-talking Banquo ("Let's have a thorough investigation sometime") acquiesces to murder, confirming what every teen knows about adult hypocrisy. (In Holinshed, Banquo is Macbeth's accomplice. Since Banquo was supposed to be the ancestor of Shakespeare's own king James I, this wouldn't really do.) Lennox plays both sides, and probably others do as well. Ross may have left Macduff's castle to "maintain plausible deniability" just before the arrival of assassins who he may have brought.

Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost with twenty skull injuries, any one of which could be fatal. He goes psychiatric and screams "You can't prove I did it." He goes on about how he used to think that once somebody's brains were out, he'd stay dead. But now he'll need to keep people unburied until the crows eat the corpse like roadkill, etc., etc.

Witches deliver incantations ("Double, double, toil and trouble... bubble etc.") that can stand alongside any meaningless-inferential heavy-metal rock lyrics.

Among the ingredients of a witches' brew are cut-off human lips and a baby's finger. It's not just any baby -- it was a child delivered by a prostitute in a ditch, and that she strangled right afterwards. (This kind of thing happens in our era, too. No one knows how often.) Macduff's precocious little son jokes with his mother about how there are more bad than good people in the world, and adds some wisecracks at the expense of her own possible morals. Moments later, the bad guys break in and stab him to death.

"Who would have thought the old man would have so much blood in him?" Lady Macbeth goes psychiatric (definitely) and commits suicide (maybe). Hearing of this, Macbeth just says "She should have died hereafter", meaning "She should have picked a different time to die." He then launches into English literature's most famous statement of the meaninglessness of life. He considers suicide, which the Romans considered the dignified thing to do under such circumstances. But he decides it would be more satisfying to take as many people as possible with him. For the word "juggling", see I Henry VI 5.iv.

Macduff recounts how he was cut out of his mother's uterus at the moment of her death.

Hey if you're having trouble understanding any plays like Macbeth you can go to sparknotes.com. They have a wide variety of literature and other study guides. For this particular act the literal translation is....

"In Inverness, Macbeth’s castle, Lady Macbeth reads to herself a letter she has received from Macbeth. The letter announces Macbeth’s promotion to the thaneship of Cawdor and details his meeting with the witches. Lady Macbeth murmurs that she knows Macbeth is ambitious, but fears he is too full of “th’ milk of human kindness” to take the steps necessary to make himself king (I.v.15). She resolves to convince her husband to do whatever is required to seize the crown. A messenger enters and informs Lady Macbeth that the king rides toward the castle, and that Macbeth is on his way as well. As she awaits her husband’s arrival, she delivers a famous speech in which she begs, “you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty” (I.v.38–41). She resolves to put her natural femininity aside so that she can do the bloody deeds necessary to seize the crown. Macbeth enters, and he and his wife discuss the king’s forthcoming visit. Macbeth tells his wife that Duncan plans to depart the next day, but Lady Macbeth declares that the king will never see tomorrow. She tells her husband to have patience and to leave the plan to her."

Also...

"Lady Macbeth speaks these words in Act I, scene v, lines 36–52, as she awaits the arrival of King Duncan at her castle. We have previously seen Macbeth’s uncertainty about whether he should take the crown by killing Duncan. In this speech, there is no such confusion, as Lady Macbeth is clearly willing to do whatever is necessary to seize the throne. Her strength of purpose is contrasted with her husband’s tendency to waver. This speech shows the audience that Lady Macbeth is the real steel behind Macbeth and that her ambition will be strong enough to drive her husband forward. At the same time, the language of this speech touches on the theme of masculinity— “unsex me here / . . . / . . . Come to my woman’s breasts, / And take my milk for gall,” Lady Macbeth says as she prepares herself to commit murder. The language suggests that her womanhood, represented by breasts and milk, usually symbols of nurture, impedes her from performing acts of violence and cruelty, which she associates with manliness. Later, this sense of the relationship between masculinity and violence will be deepened when Macbeth is unwilling to go through with the murders and his wife tells him, in effect, that he needs to “be a man” and get on with it."

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