In macbeh, lady macbeth saids "you lack the season of all natures, sleep" How does that describe sleep?

Question

Its in Act 3 Scene 4
Having trouble understanding.

Answer 1

it describes sleep as something necessary and natural...part of a cycle.

Answer 2

Put it into its proper context. This line occurs at the end of the banquet scene, in which Macbeth encounters the ghost of the slain Banquo...whose muder he ordered.

Macbeth has just freaked out in front of the banquet audience, and, because of what he says to the ghost, it's pretty clear that some of the guests are starting to suspect him of some pretty foul deeds. FINALLY, Lady Macbeth gets them to leave, and, once alone with her husband, she suggests to him that there's nothing wrong with him that a little SLEEP wouldn't cure.

It's an ironic suggestion, for a couple of reasons. For one thing, the guy just LOST IT entirely...a quick nap isn't going to help. For another thing, Macbeth already revealed (in his ramblings immediately after killing Duncan) that he had a premonition that he would "sleep no more."

I think the key to the exchange is Lady Macbeth's AVOIDANCE of the real issue here. She and Macbeth are up to their eyeballs in guilt. She can see him starting to unravel, and he's already starting to freeze her out of his ongoing decision-making process. Her suggestion that SLEEP is all he needs is wishful thinking at best.

Answer 3

it could mean that you dont have the energy to do waht you could be doing right now