...followed by the most sttiking and most nototious insrance of the image, in Lady Macbeth's infamous lines: 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 gurns And dashed...

...criticism, the kind of criticism that observed the discrepancy between Lady Macbeth s Act i assertion, 'I have given suck and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me'(1.7.54-5), Macbeth's traumatized meditation on his childlessness in Act 3 (3.1.60-73), and Macduff's...

...durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would 50 Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you...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...

...were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place r Did then adhere, and yet you would make both; They...know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it were smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd...

...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...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. Adah could remember no more of the speech. She literally fell upon Macbeth and whispered in his ear,...

...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...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. ,T .. . (I, vii, 47-54) She refers to a previous interview between them in which Macbeth had suggested...

...Whether this was true or a tactical distortion of a less definite hint Shakespeare leaves unsettled: Nor time, nor place, Did then adhere, and yet you...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. (I.vii.ji— 4) Secondly, Lady Macbeth makes the commission of the murder a test of her husband's love....

...a man: And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place 81 Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They...themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. Adah could remember no more of the speech. She literally fell upon Macbeth and whispered in his ear....

...reveals something about her own history to prove how much her own determination should spur him on: 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...

...of reality in her characterization. The motif of the unnatural is evoked again in the savage cry : 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...