FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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A stain on her dress
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A stain on her arms
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Imaginary blood on her arms
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Imaginary spots of mud on her clothes
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Detailed explanation-1: -’: Lady Macbeth is trying to wash imaginary blood from her hands. Even today, we talk metaphorically of those who are guilty of some terrible crime of having ‘blood on their hands’, and although Lady Macbeth’s hands are physically clean, they are figuratively stained with her guilt.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this scene, we find Lady Macbeth sleepwalking through the castle, hallucinating and rubbing her hands together as if she is washing them. She says: Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Detailed explanation-3: -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. That is soon to change.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth imagines, herself trying to wash the blood of Duncan from her hands.