sleep and madness

Question 1

• she is now terrified of the dark
• contrast to come thick night
• profound change in character

Answer 1

‘She has light by her continually, ‘tis her command’

Question 2

• inability to remove a mark
• exclamations = intensity of hallucinations
• contrast to a little water clears us of this deed

Answer 2

‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say!’

Question 3

• Arabia source of perfumes in the Jacobean period
• hyperbole conveys the extent of her guilt
• contrast to a little water clears us of this deed and neptune ocean

Answer 3

‘Here’s the smell of blood still ; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O.’

Question 4

• diseases of sin and guilt
• lost sanity
• needs God to help

Answer 4

‘unnatural troubles ; infected minds’

Question 5

• never rest easy again
• sleep is personified
• condemned his soul because committed regicide
• immediate guilt and allows some sympathy
• sleep = innocence of duncan and macbeth purity destroyed

Answer 5

‘Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’