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SHAKESPEARE - Lady Macbeth's death?
"Did he even know about Lady Macbeth going mental prior to her suicide?"
Act 5 Scene 5 is really doing my head in at the moment.
Macbeth learns of his wife's suicide just before he is to do battle for Dunsinane and does a monologue about her (lines 17 - 28).
I have no recollection of Lady Macbeth going crazy or showing signs of it prior to Act V at all. Because my understanding is that in Act V. Sc. 5, 17 - 28, Macbeth seems to be all 'meh, she was bound to die anyway, but I got a fight to settle outside.' Did he even know that she was going to kill herself? :/
Yeah, I mean prior to Act V, like Acts I - IV.
Because in Act V. Sc I that's where Lady Macbeth loses it, and that's the part I don't get. "Somehow" she just suddenly goes crazy in Act V after Act III. Sc 4? I mean come on, really?
What the hell happened in between Act III. Sc. 4 that made her crazy in the beginning of Act V. I thought she was all smart and knew her stuff at this usurping gig.
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- ?Lv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
She was smart, and knew about usurping the king, but only in theory. When it came to the reality of killing a human being, she had no idea how awful it would be. Like Rab said, it is all explained in her soliloquy. Basically her life became a nightmare that she could never wake up from, so she went to another place.
- Anonymous10 years ago
She was losing her mind. She kept imagining she was seeing blood on her hands, and when she slept she would go through the motions of trying to wash the blood off her hands. The guilt made her go insane, to the point where she committed suicide just to escape it.