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Unsex me Here

COMPREHENSION | By William Shakespeare | A Double Cherry Parted | COMPREHENSION | STAGING THE PLAY | By William Shakespeare | To Be or Not to Be | COMPREHENTION | Words like Daggers | COMPREHENTION |


Lady Macbeth has just read the letter from her husband telling her that he has been made Thane of Cawdor, and that Duncan is to stay in their castle that evening.

 

Act 1, Scene 5: A room in Macbeth's castle at Inverness

 

lady macbeth: (...) The raven1

Himself is hoarse2

That croaks3 the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements4. Come, you spirits

That tend5 on mortal thoughts, unsex me here6, 5

And fill me, from the crown to the toe7, top-full

Of direst8 cruelty! Make thick my blood,

Stop up th' access and passage to remorse;

That no compunctious visitings of nature9

Shake my fell purpose10, nor keep peace between 10

Th' effect and it11. Come to my woman's breasts,

And take my milk for gall12, you murdering ministers13,

Wherever in your sightless substances14

You wait on nature's mischief15! Come, thick night,

And pall16 thee in the dunnest17 smoke of hell, 15

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep18 through the blanket19 of the dark

To cry, "Hold20, hold!"

[Enter macbeth]

Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor!21

Greater than both, by the all-hail22, hereafter23! 20

Thy letters have transported me beyond

This ignorant24 present, and I feel now

The future in an instant25.

macbeth: My dearest love,

Duncan comes here tonight. 25

lady macbeth: And when goes hence26?

macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes27.

lady macbeth: O! never

Shall sun that morrow see28!

Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men 30

May read strange matters. To beguile the time,

Look like the time29, bear welcome30 in your eye,

Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower

But be the serpent under't. He that's coming

Must be provided for31; and you shall put 35

This night's great business into my despatch32;

Which shall to all our nights and days to come

Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom33.

macbeth: We will speak further34.

lady macbeth: Only look up clear35;

To alter favour ever is to fear36. 40

Leave all the rest to me.

 

 

GLOSSARY

1. raven: large black bird, thought to bring bad luck

2. is hoarse: cries out roughly

3. croaks: makes a harsh, low sound

4. battlements: top part of a castle

5. tend: take care of

6. unsex me here: remove my femininity

7. crown to the toe: head to foot

8. direst: worst

9. compunctious... nature: natural feelings of conscience

10. Shake... purpose: change my ruthless plan

11. nor keep... it: come between my plan and the action itself

12.And take... gall: replace my milk with bitter poison

13. ministers: here Lady Macbeth is referring to the spirits

14. sightless substances: invisible forms

15. wait... mischief: help the evil forces in nature

16. pall: cover

17. dunnest: darkest

18. peep: give a quick secretive look

19.blanket: cover

20. Hold: stop

21.Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor!: Macbeth was both thane of Glamis and thane of Cawdor

22. all-hail: greeted by everyone

23. hereafter: in future

24. ignorant: lacking knowledge of the future

25. in an instant: very soon

26. goes hence: goes away

27. as he purposes: so he intends

28. Shall... see: tomorrow will not come for Duncan

29. To beguile... the time: to deceive the people around, wear an expression that suits the occasion

30. bear welcome: appear welcoming, friendly

31. provided for: looked after

32. into my despatch: under my control

33. sovereign sway and masterdom: kingship

34. speak further: talk about it again

35. look up clear: look at me directly

36. To alter favour... fear: to change the expression on your face means to live forever in fear

 


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