In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth compulsively undertakes to wash her hands in an attempt to clean an imaginary stain, a symbol of her guilty conscience regarding the crimes she has committed and incited her husband to commit.
Katika Macbeth ya Shakespeare, Binti Macbeth anaanza kuosha mikono yake kwa shurutisho ili kujaribu kusafisha doa inayodhaniwa, akiashiria dhamiri ya hatia kuhusu uhalifu aliotenda na kumshawishi mumewe kutenda.