...that Duncan is coming to Inverness, she invokes the ministers of darkness to take possession of her: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...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,...

...Lady Macbeth's determination to kill Duncan The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits...unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, ' Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That...

...black and deep desires. 7. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air. 8. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. 9. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present deat And...

...the mind of Lady Macbeth nothing is but what is not. And for that reason of imagination she prays: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...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,...

...allied with the witches, she phrases this unsexing as the undoing of her own bodily maternal function: Come, you Spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...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...

...model of the manliness to which Macbeth aspires in his role as murderer and unregenerate criminal: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...topfull 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...

...prophecies, Lady Macbeth echoes their demonic incantations in her invocation to the powers of darkness: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex...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,...

...entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come you spirits That tend on human thoughts unsex me here 21 Of direst cruelty make thick my blood Stop up the...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 murth'ring ministers Wherever...

...jene des Himmels. Sie selber führen den Zerfall der Person und damit auch den ihres Zusammen"Come, you Spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me...top-full/ Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood,/ Stop up th'access and passage to remorse; [...]"!. v. 40hangs mit der Weltordnung herauf, sie wünschen ihn...

...wortgetreue Passage der zu ihrer Dehumanisierung (und Defeminisierung) die Unterwelt anrufenden Lady Macbeth: „Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts,...from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty [!]." (Macbeth, I, 5, Vs. 38-41) 15 Auf die Parallele verweist bereits Isolde Vetter in ihrem genannten...