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?