In dunsinane in a backroom of the castle.They are discussing Lady Macbeth’s insanity. Every night she goes to her closet, writes a letter, read it, seal it and go back to bed, all while fully asleep.Enter a physician and a nurse
Enter Lady Macbeth with a candle. They watch her a while and talk about her actions as they watch. She washes her hands, her eyes are open but she is asleep.She continues washing and talking to herself about how mmuch blood the old man had, the thane of fife had a wife and she is gone. She rambles on about her and her husbands guilt.then she goes to her room and the doctor says that this manner of affliction is far beyond his knowledge, but that he has known people who walk in their sleep to die in their beds.
Analysis:
Ironically When he killed Duncan, Macbeth thought he heard a voice say he had murdered sleep. Well, he did: Lady Macbeth’s sleep.Lady Macbeth, who once naively thought she could just wash her hands and forget Duncan’s murder, is now sleepwalking and so full of guilt that she imagines her hands are always covered in blood.Lady Macbeth’s guilt makes it impossible for her to hide the horrors that she and Macbeth have committed. Her conscience is rebelling against the unnatural fiend that ambition has turned her into.
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