FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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She wants to be filled with cruelty, given the hard heart and thick blood necessary to do what has to be done to make Macbeth king.
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She prays that Duncan will die on the way.
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She asks for a sign that her decision is the right one for her husband and for the country.
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She want’s her husband’s nerve to become stronger.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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” (1.5. 38-41).
Detailed explanation-2: -22. What is Lady Macbeth’s “prayer” to the spirits after she learns Duncan is coming"? She wants to be filled with cruelty, given a hard heart and the thick blood necessary to do what has to be done in order to make Macbeth king. 23.
Detailed explanation-3: -Her wish to be “unsexed” and request that the spirits to “take my milk for gall, ” so that she can act without remorse, indicate that, rather than lacking compassion, she fears she has too much.
Detailed explanation-4: -She fears that Macbeth lacks the ruthlessness he needs to kill Duncan and fulfill the witches’ second prophecy. When she learns that Duncan is coming to visit, she calls upon supernatural agents to fill her with cruelty.
Detailed explanation-5: -In Act 1 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, sensing her husband’s shaky resolve in committing murder to secure the crown of Scotland, asks spirits to “unsex” her ‑ to take away the “weaknesses” associated with being female.