FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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She worries the guards have woken up.
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She worries that Macbeth became too afraid to follow through.
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She worries that Duncan woke up and stopped Macbeth.
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She worries that she didn’t do her task well enough.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act II, Scene 2, after initially feeling confident about her task, what does Lady Macbeth soon think has happened to Macbeth and the plan? She worries the guards have woken up. She worries that Macbeth became too afraid to follow through.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lady Macbeth’s opening words introduce a new level of emotional intensity. Fear of failure has been replaced with fear of discovery, and even though she describes herself as drunk with boldness and on fire with passion, she is just as easily alarmed as her husband is by the tiniest noises and movements.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth at first tries to steady her husband, but she becomes angry when she notices that he has forgotten to leave the daggers with the sleeping chamberlains so as to frame them for Duncan’s murder.
Detailed explanation-4: -Act 2, scene 2 Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan. When Macbeth enters, he is horrified by what he has done. He has brought with him the daggers that he used on Duncan, instead of leaving them in the room with Duncan’s servants as Lady Macbeth had planned.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth returns and chastises her husband for his cowardice. She tells him not to worry because a little water will wash away the blood. Water will not, of course, wash away the guilt.