That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Metaphor
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
To cry “Hold, hold!”
– Lady Macbeth

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How being a women effects Lady Macbeth

Being a women affects Lady Macbeth in many ways such as how she talks about herself. In a famous soliloquy Lady Macbeth demands to “unsex me here.” Lady Macbeth didn’t find her courage or strength an obstacle to murdering the King, but her sex as the main difficulty. In Shakespeare’s time women were seen as fragile and weak individuals. Having the ability to murder was a masculine trait and impossible for women to have. Womanhood is is represented further later in the passage “Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall” Lady Macbeth wants to remove all motherly characteristics such as her women breast that are full of milk and replace it with gall (bile/bitterness.) With these feminine features removed Lady Macbeth is certain she would commit a treason murder because with eliminating these appearances she she is now a man and capable.

and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.

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