FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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her hands are red with King Duncan’s blood and she is ashamed.
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her hands are red with King Duncan’s blood and she is afraid.
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her hands are red with King Duncan’s blood, but, unlike her husband, she is not afraid.
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she will have to live with the murder of King Duncan for the rest of her life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act II of The Tragedy of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth declares, “My hands are of your color, but I shame / To wear a heart so white….” What does she most likely mean? Her hands are red with King Duncan’s blood, and she will have to live with guilt over the murder for the rest of her life.
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 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-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: -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.