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Question:Lady Macbeth says "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." How does her statement echo, ironically, a previous speech by Macbeth?


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Right after Macbeth kills Duncan, king of Scotland, he says, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No. This my hand would rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red." (Act 2, Scene 2)