The Sleeping and the Dead

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It is also worth noting the foreshadowing of Lady Macbeth's demise later in the play with these words. She will be the one, ultimately, who is haunted by pictures of "the dead" and she will replay her nightmare of killing Duncan while "sleep"walking. Ann is the author of the books behind ITV's VERA, now in it's third series, and the BBC's SHETLAND, which will be aired in December 2012. Ann's DI Vera Stanhope series of books is set in Northumberland and features the well loved detective along with her partner Joe Ashworth. Ann's Shetland series bring us DI Jimmy Perez, investigating in the mysterious, dark, and beautiful Shetland Islands...

Act 3, scene 2 Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth express their unhappiness. Macbeth speaks of his fear of Banquo especially. He refers to a dreadful deed that will happen that night but does not confide his plan for Banquo’s murder to Lady Macbeth. Porteous isn't the only one whose life is disrupted by the body's emergence after 30 years. Prison librarian Hannah Morton has more than enough stress in her life. Her husband recently abandoned her for another woman and her teenaged daughter is increasingly rebellious. Hannah needs to get away, but a visit to her hometown of Cranford and her old friend Sally doesn't bring her the respite she'd hoped for. Instead, she learns that the body in the lake has been identified and it's her old boyfriend, Michael Grey.

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Now that I think about it, there were also a few things left unexplained. Needless to say I do not recommend this book. There are far more interesting detective novels out there. I've read a lot of novels by Ann Cleeves lately - why is that, you ask? Answer: she's written a lot of books, and our local libraries have a lot of them on the shelves. Not to mention the fact that I have liked most of the ones I have read. She's telling her husband that he shouldn't fear those who sleep or those who are dead because they are like "pictures," static images who cannot harm him. She calls him childish for giving in to fear because only a child's eye would fear a "devil" in a picture.

Shakespeare is full of these reverberations, and it is astonishing when you consider the connections that exist between seemingly simple lines of text and actions and words spoken by other characters in the play.Act 2, scene 4 An old man and Ross exchange accounts of recent unnatural happenings. Macduff joins them to report that Malcolm and Donalbain are now accused of having bribed the servants who supposedly killed Duncan. Macduff also announces that Macbeth has been chosen king. Ross leaves for Scone and Macbeth’s coronation, but Macduff resolves to stay at his own castle at Fife. I don't know if Porteous figured in any more stories, I certainly haven't noticed any. Maybe he left the force and became an auditor or something. Act 5, scene 3 Reports are brought to Macbeth of the Scottish and English forces massed against him. He seeks assurance in the apparitions’ promise of safety for himself. But he is anxious about Lady Macbeth’s condition and impatient with her doctor’s inability to cure her.