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After he kills Duncan, Macbeth comes to Lady Macbeth with his hands covered in blood. Horrified by his act, Macbeth laments that not even all of “Neptune’s ocean” would be enough to clean his hands. The blood on Macbeth’s hands symbolizes the guilt he feels for murdering Duncan.
Here we pull together a selection of Lady Macbeth quotes that range from her early mocking of Macbeth for his apparent lack of strength to do her bidding, through to her regret and seeming empathy at the violent, murderous events that unfold:
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Lady Macbeth sees Macbeth’s goodness. “come you spirits”. “What’s done cannot be undone”. She wants to do wrong and to be evil. “fill me from the crown to the toe top full of the direst cruelty.”. “Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”. She can see and smell blood.
