FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Porter
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Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macduff
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Detailed explanation-1: -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, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it!
Detailed explanation-2: -The ‘mortal thoughts’ which these spirits ‘tend on’ are deadly thoughts: i.e. thoughts of murder. Lady Macbeth’s command that these spirits ‘unsex’ here seems to be a request for her femininity or womanhood to be drained out of her, so she is more ‘manly’ and ready to kill.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fig. 82 : Lady Macbeth : Come, you spirits; ; That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, ; ; And fill me, from crown to the toe, top-full; ; Of direst cruelty. [Macbeth, act I, scene V] Strong expression of cruelty.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth declares that ‘the raven himself is hoarse’ and then follows up with ‘that croaks the fatal entrance of Macbeth’. By this, she is referring to the mythology around ravens as being portents of doom. The raven is hoarse because it has been crying doom that is past overdue.
Detailed explanation-5: -What do Lady Macbeth’s words “unsex me here” mean? She vows not to have sex with Macbeth until he becomes king. She wants to set aside feminine sentiments that could hinder bloody ambitions.