Feeling
Macbeth expresses
            several feelings through this passage. The first feeling is
            guilt:
 But wherefore could not I pronounce
            'Amen'? 
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' 
Stuck in my
            throat. (Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 42-44)
Macbeth feels guilty
            about the killings, which is why as his victims are praying, he cannot pray with them.
            He also feels guilt over asking for prayers after commiting such a heinous
            crime.
The next feeling is of
            paranoia:
 Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no
            more! 
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, (Act 2, Scene 2, Lines
            47,48)
Macbeth is convinced that the dead are telling
            everyone of what he did. Because he murdered Duncan while he was sleeping and now feels
            guilt over it and now cannot sleep himself, he has literally murdered sleep, and the
            lack of sleep is feeding his paranoia.
Impatient, Bold,
            Mocking and Bossy
These are all traits of Lady MacBeth. She
            is impatient with Macbeth for bringing the daggers with him instead of planting them in
            Duncan's chamber to frame the guards, and them even more so when Macbeth refuses to
            return to the chamber to plant them.
 Infirm of
            purpose! 
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead 
Are but as
            pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood 
That fears a painted devil. If he do
            bleed, 
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; 
For it must seem
            their guilt. 
(Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 70-75)
She
            is bold because she takes the daggers and completes the plan herself. ("My hands are of
            your colour; but I shame 
To wear a heart so white.") She mocks Macbeth for
            his feelings of guilt and she's bossy by basically telling Macbeth that he should "get
            over it" and enjoy his new power as the ruler ("These deeds must not be
            thought 
After these ways; so, it will make us mad").
 
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