KNOWLEDGE

Macbeth

practice question 5

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Starting with this speech, explore how Shakespeare presents the Macbeths’ relationship.

Write about

  • how Shakespeare presents the Macbeths’ relationship in this speech

  • how Shakespeare presents the Macbeths’ relationship in the play as a whole

Extract from Act 1 Scene 7

MACBETH   Prithee, peace:
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

LADY MACBETH   What beast was't, then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now
Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.

MACBETH               If we should fail?

LADY MACBETH                                      We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.

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