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And later still, after Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking and handwashing scene, Angus will say of Macbeth: ‘Now does he feel / His secret murders sticking on his hands’. LADY MACBETH: Yet here’s a spot. DOCTOR: Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. LADY MACBETH: Out, damned spot ...
- Lady Macbeth
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- Lady Macbeth
The sleep-walking scene is not mentioned in Holinshed and it must therefore be looked upon as an original effort of Shakespeare's creative imagination. Lady Macbeth had none of the usual phenomena of sleep, but she did show with a startling degree of accuracy all the symptoms of hysterical somnambulism.
Lady Macbeth enters, holding a candle, but asleep. Lady Macbeth keeps rubbing her hands as if to wash them while saying "out, damned spot" (5.1.30). Then Lady Macbeth seems to relive her attempt to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan, concluding with the words: "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him" (5.1.33-34)?
Aug 26, 2024 · Lady Macbeth’s character arc is equally tied to the symbolism of sleep. At the beginning of the play, she appears stronger and more resolute than her husband, calling on dark spirits to “unsex” her and remove any hint of feminine weakness. However, her famous sleepwalking scene reveals the cracks in her seemingly impenetrable facade.
Blood words appear 109 times in Macbeth. Directors mounting the play love saturating the characters and painting the set with blood. After stabbing Duncan to death Macbeth goes down to where Lady Macbeth is waiting. His hands are dripping with blood. He holds them out and says “This is a sorry sight.” He refers to them as “hangman’s ...
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In Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene, it becomes clear that she has been dealing with a terrible weight of guilt on her conscience; Macbeth, on the other hand, seems to be handling his guilt quite ...
