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Hey can someone tells me what happens in act 5 in Macbeth with good detail please I have a test soon on it

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When Act 5 opens, Lady Macbeth is tossing and turning in her bed. She seems to be reliving the horrors she and her husband committed in her nightmares. Lady Macbeth, while sleepwalking, regrets and shows anxiety over the murders she and Macbeth have committed. She tries numerous times to wipe the blood off her hands until she succeeds. All the embarrassment she has ever felt is shown here. At the end of Act 5 of the play, Lady Macbeth is a mere shell of the person she once was. When you first meet her, she is thin, white, and shaky. The fact that she sleepwalks and talks to herself may tell us something about her mental health and well-being.

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