"The season of all natures": Sleep and Dreams in Macbeth Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth tells of a man that constantly is battling with his conscience and guilt which eventually drives him crazy. Sleep shows this battle with his guilty conscience. With a clear conscience free of guilt, Macbeth can sleep fine. With a conscience full of guilt sleeplessness and dreams plague him. Macbeth begins as a valiant soldier and a good man with a clear conscience. …
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…place; he wants people to feel safe to sleep again. Later Macbeth was killed by Macduff, and Malcom became the king of Scotland. Sleep and Dreams are directly related to the conscience, and this theme is woven all throughout the play. Sleep is the reward one gets at the end of the day, when one commits evil the conscience no longer lets natural sleep return, the only way to escape is death, or to confess.