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Learn the meaning and context of Lady Macbeth's famous line from Macbeth, Act 1, scene 5. Find out how the phrase is used today to express compassion or the opposite.
Learn the meaning and origin of the idiom the milk of human kindness, which means sympathy, care, and friendliness. See how to use it in different contexts with examples from literature, math, and everyday life.
You are too full of the milk of human kindness to take the shortest route to power. You want to be powerful, and you don’t lack ambition—but you don’t have the nastiness required to truly go for it.
13 de jul. de 2019 · milk of human kindness, the Compassion, sympathy, as in There's no milk of human kindness in that girl—she's totally selfish. This expression was invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals.
Lady Macbeth reads a letter from her husband, who has met the witches and received a prophecy of his future greatness. She urges him to act swiftly and ruthlessly to seize the crown, and invokes the spirits to unsex her and make her cruel.
(ACT I, Scene V) The Macbeth Quote “ Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness. ” is spoken by Lady Macbeth after she read the letter she received from Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is delighted upon hearing about the new title gained by Macbeth, that is, thane of Cawdor.
And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances. You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark. To cry “Hold, hold!”.
