who is familiar with shakespeare? in the play Macbeth,..?

Question

in the play macbeth Act 1 scene 5,what is the INTERPRETATION of these line and what is Lady macbeth SAYING or TRYING to tell him in lines 40 to 50?

46 That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
47 Under my battlements.Come, you spirits
48 That tend on mortal thougts,unsex me here,
49 And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
50 Of direst cruelty.Make thick my blood.
51 Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,
52 That no compunctious visitings of nature
53 Shake my fell purpose,nor keep peace between
54 Th' effect and it. Come to my woman's breast
55 And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,
56 Where in you sightless substances
57 You wait on nature's mischief. Come, thick night,
58 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
59 That my keen knife see not the wound it make,
60 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

61 To cry "Hold, hold!"

Answer 1

First of all, she is not speaking to anyone. This is an aside after the page tells her that Duncan has arrived at the gates.

What follows in a form of incantation. Lady M is appealing to the dark "gods" or spirits to fill her from "crown to toe" with cruelty (those who prey on the darker side of human nature), to take away her sense of remorse for setting up Duncan's murder. That no sense of right or guilt shake her purpose (or cause her to not commit the murder out of a sense of shame and guilt).

She continues the incantation by pleading that her "womans milk" (literally breast milk) be turned to gall (courage and viciousness). She asks lastly that the night turn foggy and full of "smoke of hell" so that noone (including herself) see the wound that her dagger will make, and that angels may not break the fog to cry "stop!"

Answer 2

Lady Macbeth wants to be able to commit the murder herself.
She is asking that she be filled with cruelty so that she may be able to commit murder.
in line 58 -60 she asks that the night be dark so no one may see what she is doing.

Answer 3

It's a good play; you ought to give it a read sometime.

Answer 4

Lady MacBeth is trying to shame Macbeth by being more "manly" then he is.

Answer 5

Let's try this: how about you tell us what YOU think she's saying, and then we'll all pitch in with our thoughts. Okay?