FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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He is calm and at ease.
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He is feeling the excitement of ambition.
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He is sad and feeling guilty for his actions.
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He may be suffering from madness.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act II, Scene 2, Macbeth claims that while in Duncan’s chamber he heard a voice cry: “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep.” What does it most likely mean that Macbeth kept hearing a voice say these words? He is calm and at ease.
Detailed explanation-2: -’ This shows that Macbeth is so guilty that he will never be able to sleep again. He has murdered the king while he is sleeping, which is a deceitful thing to do especially as the king is in line to God.
Detailed explanation-3: -When they said “amen, ” he tried to say it with them but found that the word stuck in his throat. He adds that as he killed the king, he thought he heard a voice cry out: “Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep” (2.2.33–34).
Detailed explanation-4: -Macbeth is punished by sleeplessness because he has “murder[ed] sleep". The personification of sleep shows the causality – he has sacrificed his own sleep by putting Duncan to a permanent ‘sleep’. He alienates himself from recovery and, like the murder, he sees this as an irreversible state.
Detailed explanation-5: -What did Macbeth hear, or imagine he heard, while he was in Duncan’s chamber? He thinks he hears the guards calling out and he hears knocking.