The former option is obviously the one which would suggest she is scheming and completely evil, but the latter would mean that she is genuine and quite susceptible to human emotions like shock and horror, which she would not be able to feel if she were evil. ... Shakespeare usually only uses rhyming couplets to indicate the end of a scene, but here he uses one to underline one of the main themes of the play. ... - but now, her guilty conscience is a burden she has to bear, and the rhyming couplet could be said to be the beginning of her descent into madness. ...

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