FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Her hands are also red with blood, and she is ashamed.
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Her hands are also red with blood, and she is afraid.
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Her hands are red with blood, but unlike Macbeth, she is not afraid.
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Her hands are red with blood, but unlike Macbeth, she is relieved.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“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-2: -Lady Macbeth’s involvement in the assassination of King Duncan echoes in her conscience. Her confident words to her nervily blood-stained husband – ‘A little water clears us of this deed’ – come back to haunt her. Lady Macbeth’s hand-washing is the sign of guilt.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blood, specifically Duncan’s blood, serves as the symbol of that guilt, and Macbeth’s sense that “all great Neptune’s ocean” cannot cleanse him-that there is enough blood on his hands to turn the entire sea red-will stay with him until his death.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lady Macbeth becomes convinced that there is still blood on her hands, even after thoroughly washing them clean. She becomes fixated on this idea and washes her hands over and over in an attempt to rid herself of her guilt. In the end, she decides the only way to get rid of the stain is to commit suicide.