FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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It is a comment on his profound guilt.
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Lady Macbeth will not be able to wash off the blood.
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It is a comment on his fear of being found out.
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He is afraid to wash the blood off his hands.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -He realizes, in act 3, that “blood will have blood”-he knows that he will have to suffer for his murders. Macbeth recognizes that just as he murdered people to gain power, others on a quest for power may murder him to gain what he has. There is a vicious cycle of bloodshed and violence as a result of Macbeth’s actions.
Detailed explanation-3: -"This is a sorry sight” (2.2. 18), says Macbeth, looking at his bloody hands moments after he has murdered King Duncan. His wife thinks that’s a foolish thing to say, and when she notices that he has brought the bloody daggers from King Duncan’s bedchamber, she thinks him even more foolish.
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: -Lady Macbeth again warns him not to think of such “brain-sickly of things” and tells him to wash the blood from his hands (44). Seeing the daggers he carries, she chastises him for bringing them in and tells him to plant them on the bodyguards according to the plan.