FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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he has run out of medicine
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he cannot treat her without Macbeth’s agreement
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he thinks she deserves this punishment for her crimes
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he says her problem is spiritual, not medical
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Detailed explanation-1: -A doctor is sent to care for Lady Macbeth, but he believes that her problem is not physical, but rather, spiritual. This is what he means when he says ‘’more needs she the divine than the physician.
Detailed explanation-2: -The doctor realizes that there’s not much doubt about the meaning of what Lady Macbeth has said, but there’s also not much he can do. It’s her soul that is sick, not her body, and “More needs she the divine than the physician” (5.1. 74).
Detailed explanation-3: -After his examination he claims that Lady Macbeth is mentally-ill and can not be cured through any medicine and needs God or priest. He states that she needs cure for her soul than her physical body. Doctor states that Lady Macbeth will need to help herself to come out of her mental ailment.
Detailed explanation-4: -There the Doctor reports to Macbeth that his Lady is “not so sick” in body as in a mind troubled by thick-coming fancies (37-38).
Detailed explanation-5: -Lady Macbeth’s physician, appearing briefly at the end of the play, is called upon to treat her rapidly degrading mental instability. Upon witnessing her madness, he admits that “this disease is beyond my practise” and, hence, “more needs she the divine than the physician” (5.1.