In other words, Lady Macbeth is now afraid of the dark, and must have a light nearby at all times at night. The woman who was once so fearless in her ambitions is now fearful. What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?
She, after all, was the one who conspired with Macbeth to kill Duncan so her husband could seize the throne. She continues to try to clean her guilt from her hands. Oh, oh, oh! DOCTOR: This disease is beyond my practice: yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. See our analysis of the famous Porter scene for more on this. Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: More needs she the divine than the physician.
God, God forgive us all! Look after her; Remove from her the means of all annoyance, And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night: My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight. I think, but dare not speak. The scene ends with the Doctor switching from prose to blank verse to conclude and sum up what he has discovered.
Lady Macbeth needs a priest rather than a doctor, for what ails her is spiritual rather than medical. Does Lady Macbeth commit suicide?
How did Birnam Wood move and why was Macduff able to kill Macbeth? Why does Banquo not trust the Witches? Why does Macbeth believe he needs to kill King Duncan? Why does Macbeth kill Banquo? Quotes Lady Macbeth Quotes. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.
O, never Shall sun that morrow see! More than this, Lady Macbeth is seen to rub her hands in a washing action that recalls her line "A little water clears us of this deed" in Act II, Scene 2. If these words are not enough to arouse the Doctor's suspicions, those that follow must suggest to him not only that she is suffering but also the reason for that suffering.
Lady Macbeth's speech has become fragmented and broken by an enormous emotional pressure: the suave hostess and cool, domineering wife has been reduced to a gibbering creature whose speech almost signifies nothing. There are no logical connections between her memories or her sentences, and indeed, the devastation of her mind is so complete that she cannot recall events in their correct order. Later we hear the line "Banquo's buried: he cannot come out on's grave," and finally she believes she hears Macduff knocking at the gate.
It is as though all the individual murders have coalesced into one seamless pageant of blood. Perhaps the most ironic line is the one which near-perfectly echoes an earlier line of Macbeth 's. Lady Macbeth's line "What's done cannot be undone" not only reverses her earlier argument to her husband "what's done is done" Act III, Scene 2 ; it also recalls the words of the general confession from the Prayer Book: "We have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us.
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