Lady Macbeth’s subconscious gets the best of her in the “Sleep Walking” scene. Shakespeare uses the device of so little blood - a "damned spot” - to signify so much - "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” And again, because of the smell of this one "damned spot" - “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
A scene from the 2015 Square Talk, in association with Apollo Arts, production of Shakespeare's Macbeth - directed by Nicolas Walker - featuring Ansley Braverman as Lady Macbeth.
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LADY MACBETH: Yet here's a spot.
Doctor: Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.
LADY MACBETH: Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
Doctor: Do you mark that?
LADY MACBETH: The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Doctor: Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.
Gentlewoman: She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she has known.
LADY MACBETH: Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!
Doctor: What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. 60
Gentlewoman: I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.
Doctor: Well, well, well,--
Gentlewoman: Pray God it be, sir.
Doctor: This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have know those which have walked in their sleep who have died holily in their beds.
LADY MACBETH: Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave.
Doctor: Even so?
LADY MACBETH: To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:
come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's
done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!
Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1