Thy
letters have transported me beyond
This
ignorant present, and I feel now
The
future in the instant.
-Lady Macbeth
Macbeth Act
I, Scene v, Line 58
This is a pretty good line. Lady Macbeth just read a letter
from her husband in which he talks about the witches predictions that he will
be king. She reads the letter, spends a few minutes by herself getting all
worked up about not letting her goodness get in the way of what she’s gonna
have to do (some pretty good lines there about being ‘unsexed’ among other
things). Then Macbeth shows up and she comes out with today’s line. I think it’s
a bit of an understatement to say that she’s excited about the prospect of
becoming queen. What do you think?
I was traveling with the girls a few years ago and we were talking about this line. I said 'okay, give me your best Lady Macbeth face in this instance where she's getting all worked up about killing Duncan so her husband can be king.' I'm not sure they quite understood the direction I was giving them.
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