FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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planning the murder of her husband
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stabbing Banquo
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constantly “washing” her hands
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sleepwalking and
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking, at the opening of act five of the play, is a manifestation of her guilt for the murders committed by her and her husband. She seems to be stuck in a daze, unable to come to her senses. The scene also serves as an example of Shakespeare’s usage of embedded stage directions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like her husband, she cannot find any rest, but she is suffering more clearly from a psychological disorder that causes her, as she sleepwalks, to recall fragments of the events of the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff. These incriminating words are overheard by the Doctor and a lady-in-waiting.
Detailed explanation-3: -Macbeth’s vision of the ghost reveals his guilt over ordering the murder of Banquo and his young son. His sense of guilt is so powerful that he loses his sense of reality and cannot be sure whether he is having a vision or not. He speaks these lines in order to try and reassure himself that Banquo is truly dead.
Detailed explanation-4: -First, she is guilty because she made an outright killing machine out of Macbeth. Secondly, Lady Macbeth had to do with some of the actions of the murders such as her framing Duncan’s attendants. “Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth presents a nocturnal dissociative episode with an altered state of consciousness, in which traumatic memories return, as a possible manifestation of post-traumatic stress disorder.