Question

significance of what need we fear? who knows it, when none can call our power to account? yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Answer 1

The significance of the line spoken by Lady Macbeth asserts that as long as she and her husband maintained their power, the murders committed by them cannot harm them, however her guilty conscious and mounting madness proved that her words were meaningless and hallow.

These lines were spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 5, Scene I in the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare. She uttered these lines as she sleepwalked in Macbeth’s castle on the eve of his battle against Macduff and Malcolm. Macbeth was a tragedy play which was originally performed in 1606. It dramatically portrays the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on people who seek power. In the given lines, Lady Macbeth proclaims that as long as the couple retain their power, no harm can come to them and their past crimes (murders) cannot hurt them, however, her madden state proved that her words were hallow.

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