... next quote. All of the murders have really taken a toll on Lady Macbeth. In Act 5 she is sleep walking and revealing secrets about the murders. In this quote she says, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?" (78) She is talking about Duncan's murder. The quote makes the reader ... relive Duncan's murder. Shakespeare does this to make the reader understand how bad and bloody the murder was by talking about how much blood there was ... play help the reader understand how guilt consumes people. It takes over peoples lives, they hallucinate, sleep-walk and bec...

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... may not want to kill the king but is being lead to do so. Since Lady Macbeth is convinced that Macbeth is not man enough to fulfill the prophecy and kill Duncan himself, she desires to become more like a man, so that she will be able to help with the action. She asks the spirits to make her blood thick, which means that ... revealed that she has become regretful when Lady Macbeth sleepwalks in the castle and thinks she sees blood everywhere. She tries to get the blood off of her hands but it will not come off. The doctor observes Lady Macbeth crying, "Yet who would have thought the old ...

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... crime. After the incident, however, Lady Macbeth starts to lose her mind. She tries to hide her guilt, but her conscience is too powerful and is able to overcome the fearless female. Lady Macbeth's insanity is foreshadowed in the first act. She is willing to do anything to have her ... my lord,/ fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who/ knows it, when none can call our pow"r to accompt?/ Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood on him?" (V, i, 34-39). Lady Macbeth repeatedly washes her hands of the invisible blood stains. This is the single ... moment wh...

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• Grade Level: High School