FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Lady M’s hands are red from planting the daggers on the guards, but she claims that her heart is not as weak and remorseful as Macbeth’s
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Lady Macbeth helped Macbeth kill King Duncan, so they both have blood on their hands
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What does Lady Macbeth’s statement, “My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white, ” mean? Lady Macbeth is saying that her hands are just as bloody as her husband’s (acknowledging her own role in Duncan’s murder), yet she does not feel the same guilt or anxiety that Macbeth does.
Detailed explanation-2: -“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-3: -Lady Macbeth’s hand-washing is the sign of guilt. It speaks of a contamination that can never be washed away. This scene at the beginning of the play’s fifth act is Lady Macbeth’s swansong – as Verdi realised in his opera, giving her a gloriously controlled aria at this point.
Detailed explanation-4: -The blood on Macbeth’s hands symbolizes the guilt he feels for murdering Duncan. Lady Macbeth speaks these words at the end of the play, wandering around the castle in a delirium trying to wash out an invisible bloodstain, a symbol of her guilt.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth, who once naively thought she could just wash her hands and forget Duncan’s murder, is now sleepwalking and so full of guilt that she imagines her hands are always covered in blood.