This is a picture taken from a modernized version of the Shakespearean play "Macbeth". I believe this was the part of the play when Lady Macbeth's guilt began to catch up with her. After her and Macbeth had murdered several people in order to cover up her initial assassination of the early king, she began to show signs of insanity. She would constantly attempt to wash herself free of blood that was not actually there. She was obviously subconsciously filled with guilt and so, wile attempting to wash off the imaginary blood, I think she was just trying to clear herself of what she had done. Upon realizing that this would never happen she was believed to have committed suicide to finally let her spirit rest in peace or at least to put herself out of the misery that she had created for herself.
Lady Macbeth is either being haunted and some how taunted by a supernatural power or she is paranoid to the point of dillusional sleepwalking. The mind is a powerful thing, it can make things happen subconsciously and bring them to a reality. One thing that really sticks out in my mind about this picture is that Lady Macbeth seems extremely surprised to find herself covered in blood, this makes me wonder if perhaps she too was under some type of spell or if she was just so simple minded that she thought the spell was real. Then i think of how brutally must they have massacred these people to have their blood dripping from her face. I see a more shocked impression upon her face than a regretful one which leads me to believe that she was an evil person, but then again what type of evil person would be haunted by their conscience? In conclusion I can see Lady Macbeth as both a good woman under a spell and a good woman that thought she was under a spell due to her subconsious guilt which shows how sorry she feels for what she helped her husband accomplish.
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