FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Bits of wax from her candle
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Spots of blood on her hands
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Spots of her own blood
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Ink stains from a letter
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Detailed explanation-1: -The blood on Macbeth’s hands symbolizes the guilt he feels for murdering Duncan . Lady Macbeth speaks these words at the end of the play, wandering around the castle in a delirium trying to wash out an invisible bloodstain, a symbol of her guilt.
Detailed explanation-2: -’: Lady Macbeth is trying to wash imaginary blood from her hands. Even today, we talk metaphorically of those who are guilty of some terrible crime of having ‘blood on their hands’, and although Lady Macbeth’s hands are physically clean, they are figuratively stained with her guilt.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth chides Macbeth that although her hands are of the same colour (red) she would shame / To wear a heart so white (line 65). She believes that A little water clears us of this deed (line 67), suggesting that the crime could simply be washed away and their consciences cleansed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Her agitated reading of a letter is of course a visual reminder of her reading of the fateful letter in Act I, Scene 5. More than this, Lady Macbeth is seen to rub her hands in a washing action that recalls her line “A little water clears us of this deed” in Act II, Scene 2.