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Comparisons with this scene can be made with Act 5 Scene 1, in which Lady Macbeth is seen to be sleepwalking, and in doing so giving away secrets about the murders of King Duncan and of the Macduff family. In both scenes, Lady Macbeth displays varying mental sates, which a re demonstrated through her actions in the scenes. In the beginning of Act 2 Scene 2, Lady Macbeth is alone on stage. Whilst talking in a soliloquy, she reveals to the audience that she had deliberately made the king’s guards drunk, ‘That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold:’ Lady Macbeth clearly is not as ruthless and cold as she appears to be on the outside, as she needs to curse herself before building up enough courage to go through with their plan. Lady Macbeth also shows signs of cowardice, when she gets Macbeth to kill King Duncan, using the excuse that King Duncan looks like her father. This shows that Lady Macbeth is vulnerable, as is shown later on, on a larger scale in Act 5 Scene 1. However, in the beginning of Act 5 Scene 1, Lady Macbeth can no longer withstand the burden of guilt, and as a result is plagued with sleeplessness. Sleeplessness is a recurring theme within Macbeth. Sleep is described in the play as a gift from nature, and the ability to sleep well is connected with innocence. In Act 2 Scene 2, Macbeth says that he has ‘murdered sleep’ through killing King Duncan.