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Mark, Naman, Hyunjin, Julia, Tess
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Act 1 Scene 3 “You seem to understand me by each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips. You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.” (17)
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Explanation When describing the three witches, Banquo asks what they are; he is confused of their gender because the witches have beards
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Act 1 Scene 5 “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the top- full of direst cruelty” (33)
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Explanation Lady Macbeth wants to lose her feminine qualities because it is considered unfeminine to commit murder.
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Act 2, Scene 3 “ LADY MACBETH Help me hence, ho!/ MACDUFF Look to the lady” (71)
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Explanation Lady Macbeth is pretending that she is about to faint/weak, and Macduff is trying to help her because she is ”weak”
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Act 3, Scene 4 “Why so, being gone,/ I am a man again.- Pray you sit still.” (107) Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
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Explanation Macbeth is saying that he is not a coward and he is strong. He is saying that he is a changed man, unafraid, fearless and ruthless.
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Act 5 Scene 1 “Out, damned spot, out, I say! One. Two./ Why then, ‘Tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky. Fie, my/ Lord, Fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear/ Who knows it, when none can call our power to/ Account? Yet who would have thought the old man/ To have had so much blood in him?”
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Explanation The guilt is eating Lady Macbeth alive, and she is showing her vulnerable side which is usually defined as a feminine quality.
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