This scene starts with Lady Macbeth talking to herself about how she is now fired up and is feeling bold, both from alcohol and their plot. She also reveals that she wouldn’t have had the guts to do it herself when she says “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.” Then Macbeth enters the room, having killed Duncan and in a jittery mood, saying “I have done the deed, Didist thou hear a noise?” Through their converstaion it becomes very clear that Macbeth is already feeling very bad and guilty about his deed, being unable to say “amen” any more because he has committed such an act against God. Lady Macbeth brushes it off saying he should not “consider it so deeply.” and that if they think about it to much they would go mad. (Maybe a prediction?) Macbeth is very worried now that he will not be able to sleep well ever again when Lady Macbeth notices he still has the daggers in his bloody hands. She tells him to go put them with the guards to avoid blame but Macbeth is to shaken to do it so Lady Macbeth leaves to do it. While she is gone Macbeth thinks about how a whole ocean could not wash the blood from his hands, and that his bloody hands would turn the whole ocean red. This is meaning nothing can remove his guilt from his mind, and his guiltiness and evil actions will end up poisoning the world around him. Lady Macbeth returns and says almost the opposite, “A little water clears us of this deed;” and they decide to quicky return to their room and pretend they were sleeping because someone knocking on a door……
