Will give ! lady macbeth is among shakespeare's most powerful female characters. which two sections in this excerpt from macbeth show that she is an opportunist? that made you break this enterprise to me? when you durst do it, then you were a man; and, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. nor time nor place does unmake you. 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 nip from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out, had i so sworn as you have done to this. but tighten your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. when duncan is asleep, what cannot you and i perform upon the unguarded duncan? what not put upon his spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?