The association of sleep with death ("death's counterfeit") makes dreams an easy ally of the Gothic world, which is filled with premonitions of death, murder and ghosts. ... After he murders the king, restful, nurturing, restorative sleep (the sleep of the innocent) is no longer available to Macbeth.He has violated his own moral code and soon everything will lose meaning, life will "Signify nothing.... Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt m...

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