Lady Macbeth 2
(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. These two quotes go together because fir
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Approximate Word count = 706
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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