Sleepwalking can best be described as a physical manifestation of psychic trouble, which is indicative of one’s mental state. Usually sleepwalking occurs from a lack of REM sleep, which in this case, ‘Macbeth hath murdered sleep,’ causing both of them to suffer. As she sleepwalks, snippets of her guilty conscience show by her uttering various lines from various scenes. Also, she constantly washes her hands while sleepwalking, scared and fearful of these ‘damned spots,’ or blood on her hands. While earlier she had nonchalantly said to frightened Macbeth “A little water clears of us this deed,” while now, parodying Macbeth, says ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” Even though she tries to reassure herself with “none can call our power to account,” her plaguing conscience shows how transient and hollow these words are.

Finally she believes herself to be in Hell, ‘Hell is murky,” moreover, her own hell that she has created where insanity and guilt are the instruments of torture. Her gradual change from a dark and manipulative temptress to insanity and despair has reached its end here, as later on she will commit suicide, unable to cope with the immense guilt of Duncan’s wrongful death.

Lady Macbeth’s handling of Macbeth’s hallucinations during his coronation banquet can be described as able. Just as before where she had fainted when Duncan was found dead to draw attention away from Macbeth, she continues to make excuses for Macbeth’s behavior, “Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus and hath been from his youth,” until she is finally forced to excuse all the guests from the table due to Macbeth’s excessive ranting and raving. Yet again we fi

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