Sleepwalking In Macbeth

In Act 5 scene 1 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking and has gone mad due to the multiple murders that have taken place. Lady Macbeth has manipulated Macbeth into killing King Duncan and Banquo so that she can be queen. She was never the one to feel guilty about the murders, infact she is the one commanding Macbeth to stop worrying about them. I picture Lady Macbeth in a nightgown holding a candle that highlights her face. The candle will bring out her paleness because she is so stressed to the point where she has gone crazy. When she first enters the scene, her face is blank showing the audience that she is still sleeping, but completely awake. As the scene continues her body is fidgeting and her face is disgusted. Lady Macbeth’s body
This line shows that Lady Macbeth thought that she would get no blood on her hands because she did not physically kill Duncan and Banquo. Contrary, she finds blood on her hands and is aggressively trying to wash them away. She tries so hard to wash away the blood, but “what’s done, cannot be undone” (Shakespeare 195). When performing, the actress must pay extra attention to this line to emphasize the importance of Lady Macbeth’s new situation that is introduced to the audience. This one line switches the devious and conniving queen into a guilt-ridden and remorseful
Lady Macbeth is a character that has multiple weaknesses that are not easily found through her words. For example, her insecurity about herself. I would make sure the audience knows about the weaknesses by using vague hesitant body and face movements throughout the play. It is necessary to foreshadow these imperfections of the character, but not too much. The audience has to question whether or not Lady Macbeth is as clever and evil as she thinks she is. The only way to find out where in the play to perform these actions is by analyzing the play. Every answer for an actor is inside the play, but a lot of the times not just in the words the actor