![]() Do you find Your patience so predominant in your nature That you can let this go? Are you so gospell’d To pray for this good man and for his issue, Whose heavy hand hath bow’d you to the grave And beggar’d yours for ever? First Murderer We are men, my liege. MACBETH I did so, and went further, which is now Our point of second meeting. Our innocent self: this I made good to you In our last conference, pass’d in probation with you, How you were borne in hand, how cross’d, the instruments, Who wrought with them, and all things else that might To half a soul and to a notion crazed Say ‘Thus did Banquo.’ First Murderer You made it known to us. MACBETH Well then, now Why is Macbeth trying to justify his actions to a murderer? Have you consider’d of my speeches? Know Macbeth is trying to convince the murderer that That it was he in the times past which held you Banquo has a history of oppressing people So under fortune, which you thought had been lower down the social scale. First Murderer It was, so please your highness. Shakespeare makes it clear that Macbeth has already spoken to the murderer. Was it not yesterday we spoke together? Macbeth reveals his true thoughts here about Banquo: he cannot bear the idea that one day Banquo’s children will become kings. And champion me to the utterance! Who’s there! Now go to the door, and stay there till we call. ![]() What’s done cannot be undone.Macbeth Annotated Act 3 (3.1, 3.2 and 3.4) Act 3 Scene 1 MACBETH To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list. She uses repetition of the phrase to bed and by saying " Come, come, come, come. In the play lady Macbeth tells her gentle woman to go to bed. Knowing this could help put he mind to rest about someone finding out about the murder of Banquo. She wants to give the impression that they have just awoken and gotten out of bed to answer the door, and hide the fact that she was up washing what she thought was blood off her hands.īy telling the gentle woman not to look so pale because Banquo is dead, in a way she is reassuring herself that he is buried and cannot come out. Lady Macbeth can hear knocking at the door, now realising how guilty she looks in her situations, she quickly tells her gentle woman to put on her night gown and to not look so pale. By making everyone wash their hands, she is ensuring that their is no chance of any evidence being left behind. The smell and thought of bloody hands follows her everywhere. Lady Macbeth feels to the need to ensure that everyone is clean, the guilt is going to her head and making her believe everyone has blood on their hands. She then tells the gentle woman to wash her hands. she can still continue to smell blood on her hands and she says that now perfume will ever take away that smell or make the scent go away. Lady Macbeth is sure that she can see more and more blood on her hands no matter how many times she washes them clean. In the text, lady Macbeth says " Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" This is an example of imperative voice., the forceful use of the word out in the start of the sentence. On Lady Macbeth’s hands is awaking her guilt of Banquo’s death. Not only is the doctor now aware of the reason for Lady Macbeth's behaviour, he now knows the reason behind her guilt. This scene uses symbolism, to demonstrate how the imagined blood Lady Macbeth's actions of insanity are leading to a very confused and suspicious doctor and gentle woman. Lady Macbeth is seen to rub her hands in a washing action. Like her husband, she cannot find any sleep, but she is suffering more clearly from a psychological disorder that causes her to sleepwalk. In the Scene, Act 5 Scene 1, Lady Macbeth has gone mad. There’s knocking at the gate.Ĭome, come, come, come. Look not so pale.-I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried he All the perfumes ofĪrabia will not sweeten this little hand. ![]() Hands ne'er be clean?-No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. Power to account?-Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much Soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our Yet here's a spot! Out, damned spot! Out, I say!-One,
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