FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Lady Macbeth
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The doctor
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Malcolm
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Banquo
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Detailed explanation-1: -A sentence from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, spoken by Lady Macbeth, the wife of the title character. Her husband has killed the king of Scotland at her urging, but her guilt over the murder gradually drives her insane.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Out, damned spot! ‘: 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-3: -The spot she’s referring to is a spot of blood on her hand. She’s rubbing it, trying to erase it, but cannot. “Here’s yet a spot, ” she cries, desperately rubbing. “Here’s the small of blood still.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Out, out, brief candle. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. These words are uttered by Macbeth after he hears of Lady Macbeth’s death, in Act 5, scene 5, lines 16–27.
Detailed explanation-5: -“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.” Although oft-quoted, this can be used to kick-start an intriguing discussion over the difference between Lady Macbeth and the Weird Sisters.