 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...contrast our two visions neatly with reference to the life-image of babyhood. Lady Macbeth speaks: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (Macbeth, i. vii. 54) Compare : Peace, peace ! Dost thou not see... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - 2002 - 200 pages
...that "Nature" which impedes her ruthlessness. Lady Macbeth concludes with the boastful challenge I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (54-58) I say that this challenge is boastful because Lady Macbeth... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 208 pages
...invokes the spirits of murder to suck her breasts, and that in which she finally goads Macbeth : I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (i, vii, 54-9) Lady Macbeth is siren as well as fury. The tenderness... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...femininity. Her imagination is so extremely cruel precisely because her fantasy remains feminine: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love.../ 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... | |
 | Susanne Skubal - 2002 - 182 pages
...particular the once nurturing maternal is shown to be capable of perversion to a remarkable 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 320 pages
...by the most striking and most notorious instance 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 gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done... | |
 | Tiko Campbell - 2003 - 0 pages
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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. 
