Not sure if there is ONE more evidence aside from the
sleepwalking, but she does engage in several behaviors during these episodes that
definitely show that her mind is never a ease. This is first, as you know, is manifested
in her troubles sleeping and in her tendency to sleep
walk.
The second is that, during her sleepwalking, she is
taking paper, folding it, writing on it reading it, then sealing it, and then going back
to bed. This may be her desire to write out her confessions, or to write out her
pain.
Another is her tendency to wash her hands several
times a day. Her gentlewoman quotes how, during her sleep walking spells, Lady Macbeth
rubs her hands together and complaints about blood. She also says that, during the
daytime when she is awake, Lady MacBeth also washes her hands by rubbing them together,
and that this became a habit of hers, and a clear indication of her guilt as
well.
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