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"To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed!".

Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale.—I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out on's grave. Doctor: Even so? come_give_me_your_hand

This line highlights Lady Macbeth's transition from a cold, calculating figure to one "unhinged" by trauma and guilt. "To bed, to bed

It is spoken by in Act 5, Scene 1 (the famous "sleepwalking scene") as she relives the guilt of the murders she helped commit. Context of the Text Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so pale

In this scene, Lady Macbeth is mentally unraveling. While sleepwalking, she obsessively tries to wash imaginary blood from her hands and speaks to her absent husband, Macbeth.