Macbeth

Macbeth Quote Significance

What is the significance of the quote:

"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ 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!’"

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This quote is significant because Lady Macbeth is asking the spirits to help her in her part of Duncan's murder. She wants the strength of a man, the ability to feel no remorse. She wishes her conscience gone... None-the-less, she will not get what she asks for, and her conscience will lead her to end her own life. This quote is also significant because of the way she immasculates Macbeth.

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