FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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An old man
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Lady Macbeth
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Banquo
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Macbeth
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Detailed explanation-1: -LADY MACBETH enters. My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white. My hands are red like yours, but I’d be ashamed if my heart were as bloodless and cowardly as yours.
Detailed explanation-2: -When Lady Macbeth returns from Duncan’s chamber she holds out her blood-stained hands and says, “My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white, ” claiming that although she has Duncan’s blood on her hands she feels no guilt.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth’s character "My hands are as red as yours, but I would be ashamed if my heart were as pale and weak, ” (Shakespeare 2.2).
Detailed explanation-4: -“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white” (2.2. 63-64). Lady Macbeth ridicules Macbeth for behaving so weak and naïve. He is supposed to be a man who is brave and fearless, but instead he cowers like an infant.
Detailed explanation-5: -61-62). She means that her hands are red, too (because she has been busy smearing the King’s blood on the grooms), but that she would be ashamed to have a heart as white as Macbeth’s. A white heart is white because it has no blood, and the person with a white heart is a coward.