My motif is on Sleep. In Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene, Lady
Macbeth's waiting gentlemen tells a doctor of the sleepwalking Lady Macbeth
experiences. Lady Macbeth walks and talks in her sleep, telling deep secrets of guilt. It all
started when Macbeth is about to kill Duncan, Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air.
Covered with the pointed end toward the king's chamber, the dagger represents the
bloody course which Macbeth is about to start. Later, Macbeth sees Bonquo's ghost
sitting in a chair at a feast, tring not to rememeber he murdered his former friend. Then
this is when Lady Macbeth gives way to visions, as she sleepwalks and believes that her
hands are stained with blood that connot be washed away by any amount of water. In
each case, it is confusing whether the vision is real or just hallucinations. Her
sleepwalking deals with symbolic dreams and effects of buried feelings. It becomes more
of a mentle breakdown. Her sleepwalking can be viewed as such a dream, it's more of a
Some symbolic actions expressed by Lady Macbeth are quotes such as "I
have seen her rise from her bed... take forth paper, fold it, write upon't, read it,
afterwards seal it, and again return to bed." Another such as.. "She has light by her
continually: "tis her command." And "Look, how she rubs her hands." Some of her
statements express symbolically the causes and origins of her present condition. Lady
Macbeth starts her sleepwalking in Act V scene 1 in line 32. But it just seems like
everything is so out of place. One symbolism is the spot she believes is in her hands.
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
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