--Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 34-39: Lady Macbeth to herself while sleepwalking Guilt in Macbeth While observing from outside the castle, a doctor and a woman notice some strange habits of a Lady Macbeth, who seems to be in a hypnotic state. The doctor and woman take note of the candle in her hand and her lamentations over the murders of Lady Macduff and Banquo. Then proceeds to make comments on the hallucination of bloodstains that appear to be on her hands. Lady Macbeth’s
Her husband is gone from the house more often, to take care of the patients with serious conditions, leaving her with Jennie, his sister. She feels alone and her imagination makes up these apparitions in the wallpaper to keep her amused. She starts seeing a woman creeping in the wallpaper. The woman scares her and she wants to move into a different room to escape her phantom presence. Her imagining this woman is representing the narrator subconsciously realizing that she might me going crazy and that fact scares her and she wants to escape the empty room that leaves her to her
Inman reads a passage from Bartram’s Travels, and gets embarrassed when the passage turns out to include sex. They start to talk of the past, to catch up on what happened when they weren’t together. Inman brings up marriage to be something not so possible now that he has been damaged so much, emotionally and spiritually. But Ada, from her experience of herbs and nature, concludes: “I know people can be mended…. I don’t see why not you.” (420) While they continue talking, their conversation of past and future is interrupted by Ruby who says Stobrod’s fever is down right now but still keeps rising and falling.
Salamanca does not like the feeling of being noticed among college students, but will do this to help her friend Phoebe. Another example of this theme occurs in Chapter 26 when Phoebe is staying over at Salamanca’s for the night. The girls are lying in bed, and Phoebe begins to cry. Sal does not comfort her, and instead lets Phoebe cry by herself. Sal reflects, “sometimes you just wanted to be alone with the birds of sadness” (169).
As readers we also have different points of view of the story, we can either interpret the story as she did this because the sound of the water would distract her from the sad thoughts in her mind, drowning the thoughts with the water, or we can also interpret it as her wanting to forget about her husband and completely ignore his absence because she didn’t want him there either way. Meg, the other character who tells the other side of the story, thinks that this insane old lady needs help trying to figure out what to do and how to cope with the loss of her husband. Meg describes her to her own husband when she says, “She’s nuts, she is. Really. I mean she’s out of her gourd.” (Boyle 452) When Meg went to see if Muriel was okay and to say sorry for the loss, Muriel completely
Rachel is unable to deal with her life after Carlton dies, and she abuses sleeping pills to cope with her pain (Phillips 191). She also sleeps with many different men because it is the only way that she is able to feel better (Phillips 99). The narrator says of happiness: “Julian was the only one left who might remind her what it looked like” (Phillips 80). Rachel is miserable and turns to any pleasure source she can find, which is one reason she wants Julian back. He does not know she abuses sleeping pills and is so miserable because she presents the illusion that she is doing okay.
The imagery at the starting of the advertisement is of an exhausted but restless woman. This is accompanied by the diegetic sound of her describing her sleepless night. She says her husband calls the headache caused by aspirins a “sedative hangover”, in this way it becomes clear to the viewer that she is a wife. This is also a way of name-calling as the advertisement implies that other sleeping pills cause sedative hangovers. The lady then asks a rhetorical question, “isn’t there something to help me sleep without giving me a sedative hangover?” this makes the target audience immerse themselves in the problem.
This information deeply shocks her. At first she is very annoyed by the superficiality with which other people speak about that death at her party. She is sensible and understands the importance of his gesture, also because Clarissa herself has may times thought about suicide. Her reaction is also physical; indeed she immediately feels burning and enters in a small and dark room to be alone. She imagines his death and understands why he committed suicide.
Lady Macbeth also plays and evil role beside him. She mocks him, if he frets over her instructions, saying that he will be less of a man if he does not follow the plan. She gives Macbeth a lecture of deceptiveness when planning the murder of King Ducan. She had also prepared a dagger for Macbeth to kill the King in advance. Though Macbeth still had doubts, she was ready to do this blood thickening job, herself.
In the beginning, you immediately feel the isolation of the room in which our character lives, but you quickly figure she is there for a reason. In her writing in secret and disagreeing with physicians at all cost, you feel sorry for her, but also question if she is of right mind. There are times you are angry with the husband, but you know that is how it was at that time with how he treats her. I would agree most people reading would assume she is crazy and then see the clues that lead to postpartum depression and see the husband as not all bad. You cannot trust that her view of any reality when she seems most lucid is even clear enough for anything when you realize her state of mind.