(1.5.57-58) In this scene Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth lacks the ability to fulfil the witches' second prophecy. She learns that Duncan is coming to visit her and she calls upon supernatural agents to fill her with cruelty. Lady Macbeth says "Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell..." In this quote she is asking the supernatural agents to fill her with the darkest smoke of hell.
(5.1.38) In this scene a gentlewoman who waits on Lady Macbeth has seen her walking in her sleep and has asked a doctor's advice. Together they observe Lady Macbeth make the gestures of repeatedly washing her hands as she relives the horrors that she and Macbeth have carried out and experienced. Lady Macbeth says "Hell is murky." She is remembering the murder that she and Macbeth committed. She states, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" remembering how bloody the Macbeth's hands were. She felt horrified that they had committed this evil act of murder.
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These two quotes are ironic. In the beginning of the play she says how easy it will be to disregard their actions but later in the play she repeatedly washes her hands trying to rid herself of the horrors and simply can not. She tries it over and over but she can not seem to relieve herself.
(5.1.45) "What, will these hands ne'er be clean?" In this scene Lady Macbeth is trying to wash away her sins that she and Macbeth committed. She is trying to relieve herself of the horrors she and Macbeth experienced. She is watched by the doctor and he says that she needs spiritual aid and not physical aid.
(2.2.82-83) Here in this scene Lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth about the murdering of Duncan. Macbeth's hands were red with blood from killing Duncan and Lady Macbeth says "My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white." This quote means that she is in the middle of this incident but she wishes not to be in it because of its brutality. She feels ashamed because she made Macbeth make sure he fulfilled the witches pr
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