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The supposed Lady Macbeth effect or Macbeth effect is a priming effect in which feelings of shame appear to increase cleaning and cleanliness-seeking responses. [1] The effect is named after the Lady Macbeth character in the Shakespeare play Macbeth ; she imagined bloodstains on her hands after committing murder.
The Doctor asks how Lady Macbeth came to have the light. The Gentlewoman replies she has ordered a light be beside her at all times (she is now afraid of the dark, having committed her crimes under its cover). Lady Macbeth rubs her hands in a washing motion. With anguish, she recalls the deaths of King Duncan, Lady Macduff, and Banquo, then ...
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth begins to compulsively wash her hands in an attempt to cleanse an imagined stain, representing her guilty conscience regarding crimes she had committed and induced her husband to commit. [98]
And Kate Fleetwood was another incredible Lady Macbeth." ... trying unsuccessfully to wash it from her hands. "The 'out damned spot' scene, her descent into madness, is the most fun part," Koch ...
John Bulwer calls Lady Macbeth's hand rubbing gesture Gestus #XI: Innocentiam Ostendo (Latin for "I display innocence"). He states that "[t]o imitate the posture of washing the hands by rubbing the back of one in the hollow of the other with a kind of detersive motion is a gesture sometimes used by those who would profess their innocency and ...
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Lady Macbeth sleepwalking by Johann Heinrich Füssli. At night, in the royal palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss Lady Macbeth's sudden frightening habit of sleepwalking. Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand, bemoaning the recent murders and trying to wash off imaginary bloodstains from her hands.
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