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GUILT/INSANITY (Physical manifestations/supernatural (The line of kings…
GUILT/INSANITY
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Hands
Beginning
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'my hands are of your colour, but I shame/ To wear a heart so white'
The adjective 'white' implies that Macbeth is innocent and perhaps he has been lead astray in this murder. Alternatively could suggest how his emotions are too easy to read.
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End
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Lady Macbeth loses blank verse at the end and speaks in rhyme too. This shows the effect murdering Duncan has had on her. It was a supernatural act and now she has become almost supernatural, speaking in the same way as the witches do
'The thane of Fife, didn't he have a wife,/ where is she now?'
Regret
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I' am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.'
Macbeth wishes he hadn't done it, but it is too late now to undo what has been done. he may as well continue with the path he has begun
Sleep
Shakespeare uses the motif of sleep to present how guilt has affected the Macbeths. After they have commited regicide (killing monarchy) they can no longer do natural things such as sleeping. This shows how what they did was unnatural and Shakespeare shows th enegatice consequences of this to deter his audience from doing the same
'sleep no more./ Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep'
'Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtain'd sleep'
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Lady Macbeth sleep walks int Act V and also is implied to have committed suicide due to the enormous guilt she feels