NIGRO TOILETS
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After Lady Macbeth read the letter from Macbeth, she is wrapped up in these murderous thoughts, and when she knows King is coming to Macbeth castle. She thinks this is the chance. As Lady Macbeth waits for her husband coming back, she transforms herself into a killer's state of mind. She says, "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty!". Lady Macbeth, who is thinking deadly thoughts, calls on the "spirits" of murder to take away her womanliness. The spirits is like only part of her that can have strength to kill. She is telling herself that she can do it. She wants her blood to be thick and her milk to be bitter poison, she asks for the ability to kill without seeing what she is doing, and without being seen.
She says, Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!..