Due to Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s planning and involvement of Duncan’s death, the people suffer from nightmares and hallucinations which establishes that the ambition of power will not only weigh a heavy guilt upon a person due to cheating but also of the corruption of the mind and morality.
After Macbeth received his prophecy, he and other characters have been experiencing hallucinations and signs of evil, due to the prophecy and evil plan of Macbeth’s. (show assertion is correct) While the rest of the guests are asleep, Banquo tells his son Fleance that he think “there’s husbandry in heaven”, because “[Banquo] would not sleep.” Banquo asks for “merciful powers [to] restrain in [him] the cursèd thoughts that nature gives way to in repose” …show more content…
The darkness of the night represents how Duncan’s world, or kingdom, is like after his death. The kingdom will be plagued of Macbeth’s evil rule. From these lines “[a] heavy summons lies like lead upon me, [and] yet I would not sleep”, Banquo feels sleepy, yet he does not want to go to sleep. He does not want to experience the nightmares that plagues his mind throughout his day. The nightmares he sees foreshadows Duncan’s death (2.1.8-9). After Macbeth completed the murder, he speaks to Lady Macbeth that he thought he “heard a voice cry [‘Sleep no more!] Macbeth does murder sleep’—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast” (2.2.47-52). When Macbeth murdered Duncan, he has murdered “the innocent sleep.” He has killed a man who not only was asleep but defenseless. This, in Macbeth’s perspective is shameful and worries him. He fears of being discovered because he murdered the innocent Duncan, a man that people deeply care about. This also foreshadows of how the guilt will affect him in the future with him being paranoid of being found out because of the people he
After Macbeth received his prophecy, he and other characters have been experiencing hallucinations and signs of evil, due to the prophecy and evil plan of Macbeth’s. (show assertion is correct) While the rest of the guests are asleep, Banquo tells his son Fleance that he think “there’s husbandry in heaven”, because “[Banquo] would not sleep.” Banquo asks for “merciful powers [to] restrain in [him] the cursèd thoughts that nature gives way to in repose” …show more content…
The darkness of the night represents how Duncan’s world, or kingdom, is like after his death. The kingdom will be plagued of Macbeth’s evil rule. From these lines “[a] heavy summons lies like lead upon me, [and] yet I would not sleep”, Banquo feels sleepy, yet he does not want to go to sleep. He does not want to experience the nightmares that plagues his mind throughout his day. The nightmares he sees foreshadows Duncan’s death (2.1.8-9). After Macbeth completed the murder, he speaks to Lady Macbeth that he thought he “heard a voice cry [‘Sleep no more!] Macbeth does murder sleep’—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast” (2.2.47-52). When Macbeth murdered Duncan, he has murdered “the innocent sleep.” He has killed a man who not only was asleep but defenseless. This, in Macbeth’s perspective is shameful and worries him. He fears of being discovered because he murdered the innocent Duncan, a man that people deeply care about. This also foreshadows of how the guilt will affect him in the future with him being paranoid of being found out because of the people he