Macbeth Act 5

Your conscience is so powerful at times that it can haunt you. Scene one shows the perfect representation of what happens when something is weighing heavy on ones conscience. In this scene Lady Macbeth is being observed for her sleep walking. While she was being observed the doctor saw that Lady Macbeth kept washing "blood" off her hands saying, "Out, damned spot, out I say!..." She began to feel guilty for the death of Duncan. Even though she didn't physically commit the murder she played a role in his death. No matter how much she scrubbed she could not get the smell off her hands, she asked, will her hands ever be clean and that all the perfumes of Arabia cant sweeten her hand. Why did she feel so guilty if she didn't commit the crime?




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