Macbeth Act 5 Quotes

Doctor to Gentlewoman (about Lady Macbeth sleep walking): A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and

• do the effects of watching

• do the effects of dreaming

• do the effects of sleeping

• do the effects of napping

Gentlewoman to Doctor (about Lady Macbeth): she has light by her continually,

• 'tis her command

• she's scared of the dark

• we make her do it

• Macbeth commands it so

Gentlewoman to Doctor (about Lady Macbeth): It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands; I have known her continue in this a quarter

• of an hour

• of a day

• of a week

• of a month

Lady Macbeth (sleepwalking): Out,

• damned spot!

• damned dog!

• damned fiend!

• damned king!

Lady Macbeth: Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much

• blood in him?

• hatred in him?

• love in him?

• envy in him?

Lady Macbeth: The Thane of Fife had a wife.

• Where is she now?

• Then we killed her

• why did Macbeth murder her?

• She was always causing strife

Lady Macbeth: What, will these hands ne’er

• be clean?

• be open?

• be held?

• be dirty?

Lady Macbeth: Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten

• this little hand

• the bitter bread

• this cup of tea

• my guilty heart

Doctor (about Lady Macbeth): The heart is sorely

• charged

• hurt

• broken

• dead

Lady Macbeth: What’s done cannot be

• undone

• done again

• forgotten

• regretted