Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking while she desperately attempts to remove an unseen spot from her hands. A doctor and a gentlewoman look on and discuss her state of mind.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.
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The sound of static could be played and grow louder as the scene progresses.B
Lady Macbeth could stand and face the doctor and gentlewoman while talking.C
The light on the doctor and gentlewoman could become brighter throughout the scene.D
The set could be smeared with blood to represent the multitude of murders.