The Milk of Human Kindness


"Yet do I fear thy nature;/ it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness/ to catch the nearest way." When I said this I wasn't really talking to anyone, but I was describing my husband. I was excited about being queen of Scotland, but I was afraid that Macbeth didn't have the guts to kill the current king in order to take his place. It was very frustrating. I knew I was so close to the throne, yet I knew my husband was to weak to get there. Seeing as milk is a nurturing substance that is necessary for life I figured that if you were full of the milk of human kindness you would be full of the necessary ingredient, the very essence, or even the precursor of human kindness. This suggests that my husband was too soft, too kind, and not tough enough to do the man's job of killing the king.  Looking back on this now it is such a powerful grouping of words that I would have liked to actually say it while my husband was in front of me in order to really slam home the point that he needed to stop being kind and caring and start being the kind of person who could murder in order to rise up.

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