FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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the doctor
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the gentlewoman
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Macbeth
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Macduff
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Detailed explanation-1: -When Lady Macbeth states, “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (5.1. 39), she demonstrates that she is suffering the torment foreshadowed on the night of the murder.
Detailed explanation-2: -The horrified doctor and gentlewoman watch as Lady Macbeth then relives conversations with Macbeth after the murder of Banquo and hears an imaginary knocking and rushes off to bed. The doctor says the disease is beyond his power to cure and that “unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles” (lines 6162).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Doctor is fully aware that Lady Macbeth has unwittingly confessed to the murder of Duncan and is amazed to hear that the rumours are true. He concludes that Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles (lines 67–8), another example of a commoner remarking on the unnaturalness of events.
Detailed explanation-4: -A Waiting-Gentlewoman who serves in the Macbeths’ household has told the Doctor who accompanies her that Lady Macbeth has been seen sleepwalking around the castle, but although he has accompanied her for two nights now, they have, as yet, failed to see Lady Macbeth walking around on her somnambulistic travels.