Macbeth: Quotes on Lady Macbeth Act 5

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  • Macbeth: Quotes on Lady Macbeth Act 5
    • 'Out damned spot, out I say!'
      • Here Lady Macbeth is washing off an imaginary spot of blood on her hand which shows us how Lady Macbeth really feels about all the horrible things her ambition caused her to do
    • 'Will these hands ne'er be clean'
      • At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth just tells Macbeth to wash his filth witness but now the drastic guilt has gotten to her and she feels like she cannot wipe this guilt off
    • 'all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'
      • She feels that virtually nothing can remove the guilt of the deed now. Also mirrors what Macbeth said in Act 2 'Will all great Neptune's..'
    • 'The Queen, my lord, is dead'
      • Lady Macbeth committed suicide  because she couldn't overcome her feelings of guilt due to her evil manipulations and the outcome of those manipulations (Macbeth's actions).

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