...as illness. Unlike Lady Macbeth, he has the natural milk of human kindness. Of herself she says: ... 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,...

...other's innermost fears and desires. They meet on the ground of a shared, willed, murderous ferocity: 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...

...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...me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gurns And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done...

...to me? When you 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...— 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...

...father: deep down in her heart nature does prevail. And when in I, vii, she speaks these terrible words: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this — (lines 54-9) passage, "though usually thought to prove a merciless and unwomanly nature, proves...

...f I ii I with the play s most terrible image, ot what it is to destroy an utterly vulnerable life: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so swom as you Have done to this. (I.vii.54-9) It is sensual, exquisite, as she gives herself to the smiling...

...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...from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out. (I.vii.54-58) We cannot say whether she actually has children or not, for this speech is not designed...

...experiments than adults. You know those poor kids you see on milk cartons?" Logan shook his head sadly. / have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...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. — William Shakespeare, Macbeth '...

...I have given suck, and 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...brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this. MACBETH. If we should fail, LADY MACBETH. We fail.* In her impersonation of the part of Lady Macbeth,...

...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...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...