Unknown Story
Storyboard Text
- My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
- Come. Let us wash this blood off of our hands. With just a little water, the evidence is gone.
- KNOCK!KNOCK!
- What's that knocking?
- Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us and show us to be watchers.
- Hurry! Wash your hands quickly.
- KNOCK.KNOCK!
- After finishing Macbeth's actions, Lady Macbeth accuses her husband of having a cowardly nature. They both start to hear knocking at the gate and decide to wash their hands, in order to hide the evidence of Duncan's murder.
- Be not lost so poorly in your thoughts.
- To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.
- KNOCK!KNOCK!KNOCK!
- While Lady Macbeth is framing Duncan's servants for his murder, Macbeth is going insane and feels like he hears noises inside his head. Macbeth contemplates on whether or not he can wash the guilt off his hands. He worries that even the world's oceans could not cleanse the blood from his hands, as he specifically refers to Neptune (the Roman God of the Sea). In fact, Macbeth even mentions that it is likely for his red-stained hands to turn the green waters red, in his attempt to clean them.
- Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst.
- KNOCK!KNOCK!KNOCK!
- As Macbeth washes his hands from the blood, they hear more knocking. Lady Macbeth tells her husband to put on his sleep attire to make it look like they were sleeping the entire time.
- KNOCK!
- KNOCK!
- Lady Macbeth reminds her husband not to think of the bad things they have done, otherwise it would weigh him down and stress him out. Macbeth recognizes that the only way he can move past his actions, is to forget his identity. Meanwhile, the knocking only becomes louder.
- Macbeth considers the extent of his crime and regrets killing Duncan. At this point in the scene he is unconcerned of whether he will get discovered or not. Macbeth wishes that the knocking can "wake Duncan" up, which illuminates the irony of the scene, since he himself killed the king.
- The knocking continues into the next scene...
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created
No Downloads, No Credit Card, and No Login Needed to Try!
