FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
Question
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Illness comes to evil people.
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A guilty conscience is not easily mended.
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Wives should be forgiven for their husbands’ misdeeds.
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One is doomed to relive evil deeds.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the main message of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1, which includes Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene? A guilty conscience is not easily mended.
Detailed explanation-2: -The major theme of this chapter is nihilism, specifically how Macbeth exhibits a nihilistic worldview. Nihilism: The belief that traditional morals, ideas, beliefs, etc., have no worth or value.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking symbolizes the distress and psychological pain she is in. Since she demands Macbeth to kill innocent people, she becomes restless from guilt. According to Dream Dictionary, sleepwalkers are under a massive amount of stress and lack sleep.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lady Macbeth has gone mad. Like her husband, she cannot find any rest, but she is suffering more clearly from a psychological disorder that causes her, as she sleepwalks, to recall fragments of the events of the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Lady Macduff.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth says “What’s done/ cannot be undone” in Act Five scene one, but her guilt continues to torment her. While Macbeth’s guilt causes him to commit further murders in an attempt to cover up his initial crimes, Lady Macbeth’s guilt drives her to insanity, and, finally, suicide.