sleepwalking and sleep talking in the play. Shakespeare uses sleepwalking as a focus of the horror of the murders, the pitiable internal suffering of the criminals, and the resistance to murder from the ambitious queen Lady Macbeth (Mack 83). Sleep talking is the utterance of speech or sounds during sleep without awareness of the event. This is caused by anxiety disorders that are very similar to sleepwalking (Myers 256). Shakespeare describes the scene with Lady Macbeth sleep talking in order to show the guilt that is consuming her thought
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