I've never seen the play of Macbeth, so maybe that would help me. But I don't understand why Pat cut her hand off. I know she was going "insane" and thought that her burn was getting worse, so is that why? It confused the crap out of me. And then it looked like she died, but you can't die just from cutting your hand off, can you?
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Lady MacBeth is driven insane by the guilt and the secrecy of the murder and begins hallucinating - she sees blood on her hands when there is none (or burns in this case). These hallucinations, and the panic they bring are enough to force her to take her own life.
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Yes, you can die from cutting your hand off. Try it and find out.
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In the play, Lady Macbeth is wracked by guilt for helping her husband kill Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff' family, and starts to go insane. The biggest manifestation of her insanity is an hallucination of blood on her hand, which she obsessivly tries to clean off. She has a very famous speech that goes something like this:
"Out damn spot! Out I say! One, two. Why then 'tis time to do it. Hell is murky. Fie my lord (about Macbeth). A soldier and afeared? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man (Duncan) to have had so much blood in him? The Thane of Fife (Macduff) had a wife. Where is she now? No more my lord. You will mar all this with starting. Here's the smell of blood still. Oh, all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Look not so pale. Banquo is buried; he cannot come out on's grave." Etc.
Not too long after this, she kills herself.
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"...but you can't die just from cutting your hand off, can you?"
My friends and I had this same question after watching the movie as well, and we pretty much chalked it up to the martinis she was having. Alcohol lowers your ability to heal itself and blood doesn't clot as well when you're on the sauce. So we all assumed that she fainted initially from the shock of the strike, but never woke up because she bled out.
I found the film to be the best inadvertent comedy since Schindler's List. ~UraniumCommittee
Yeah, you'd prob'ly bleed to death a lot faster than you would just by slashing your wrists.
Death is...whimsical today.
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"...but you can't die just from cutting your hand off, can you?"
Yeah, you definitely can. Can you imagine how much blood loss there would be?Read Robert Frost's "Out, Out-" which incidently takes its title from Macbeth's speech about the meaninglessness of life. It's about a boy who accidently cuts off his hand doing some farm work.
you could bleed to death...connection to macbeth is because lady macbeth has a sleep walking scene which she is trying to wash the blood off her hands even though the y are spot less "Out damn spot out i say"...she later commits suicide but to do this scene they just finished her off earlier
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