Lady Macbeth is among Shakespeare's most powerful female characters. Which lines in this excerpt from Macbeth show that she is an opportunist?

1. 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

2. 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 pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums

And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

3. But screw your courage to the sticking-place,

And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,

4. What cannot you and I perform upon

The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon

His spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt

Of our great quell?

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Bentley Boyd

13 May, 22:57

Lady Macbeth is among Shakespeare's most powerful female characters. Which lines in this excerpt from Macbeth show that she is an opportunist?

1. 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

2. 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 pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums

And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

3. But screw your courage to the sticking-place,

And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep,

4. What cannot you and I perform upon

The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon

His spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt

Of our great quell?

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What cannot you and I perform upon

The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon

His spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt

Of our great quell?

She tells her husband that Duncan is now there for us to kill. She adds that we pin the blame on the officers to get us off the hook.