 | Gunnar Olsson - Science - 2010 - 569 pages
...sticking-place and show her that he is as determined to carry out their plan as she is. In her own words, I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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. (1.7.54-59)... | |
 | Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson - History - 2007 - 270 pages
...finally counters his stiff resistance with a particularly shocking image of the destruction of a baby: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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 (1.7.54-59).2'... | |
 | Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 6 pages
...particularly in Lady Macbeth 's startling image designed to strengthen her husband's resolve to kill King Duncan: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis...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... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 188 pages
...courage necessary to commit acts of violence. This contrasts with Lady Macbeth' s single-mindedness: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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... | |
 | Robert A. Logan - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 276 pages
...murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief. (I, v, 39-49) I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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 [Macbeth]... | |
 | Fiona McNeill - Drama - 2007 - 20 pages
...order, patrilineal rule, and household economy. Lady Macbeth declares near the beginning of the play, "I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love...me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gum, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done... | |
 | Sam Dowling - Fiction - 2007 - 90 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...to explain the missing Macbeth child or children, that baby or babies of whom Lady Macbeth remarks "I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the babe that milks me." The Scottish Play exists only in the present and future dimensions: Lady Macbeth feels "now / The future... | |
 | 339 pages
...through the blanket of the dark, To cry ' Hold, hold!' — Macbeth, William Shakespeare Lady Macbeth: l have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: l would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd... | |
 | Erin Detrick - Drama - 2008 - 162 pages
...Remember when we went to see Macbeth'? Remember I cried when she said: I have given suck, and know Hon> 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 tiave done... | |
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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. 
