Guilt In Macbeth

Do you ever feel guilty about something? Does it feel like the guilt is slowly eating away at your conscience? Will you drown in this pool of guilt, or will you float? Well, guilt eats all of us up inside. Guilt is a feeling that drives us to insanity and we begin to disconnect from our surroundings because we're so lost in the feelings of regret and guilt. Shakespeare explains this by mentioning our two protagonists Macbeth and LadyMacbeth and giving us their point of view and how they are handling the weight of guilt after murdering King Duncan for Macbeth's own ambitions. Shakespeare walks us through the feelings of being manipulated into carrying out something bad, doing the task and the aftermath of the situation, showing us every emotional

In this scene Macbeth visualizes the blood dagger used to murder this character being in his hands. He says ‘ a dagger of the mind, a false creation.’ Macbeth is aware it's all a hallucination and he snaps out of seeing this visage. Further into these scenes Macbeth imagines seeing the ghost of a friend he murdered named Banquo. Not only is Macbeth feeling guilty over killing the king so he can take his spot he feels even more guilt because he killed his friend. (3.4.40-150) we are pulled into the mind of Macbeth after he sees the ghost of his now deceased friend Banquo sitting in his seat at the dinner table where a meeting is being held by Macbeth himself, his wife Lady Macbeth and a few side characters. Macbeth’s immediate reaction. Macbeth then opens his mouth to say “Prithee, see there. Behold look!” along with him trying to get the image of his deceased friend wiped from his mind, he exclaims Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide

Macbeth feels he is getting prophecies through visions by a bloody head and crowned babies. These lines Shakespeare chooses to include shows the audience that Macbeth is seeing apparitions that aren't really there,which shows us the madness behind a guilty conscience.Shakespeare then flips the point of view by showing us how lady macbeth feels about this matter.When Macbeth declares that he no longer wants to try to kill Duncan Lady Macbeth, in a fit of rage , calls him a coward and questions his manhood by saying “When you durst do it,then you were a man” (1.7.49-51). Now, at first she isnt caring of whats about to take place until she begins to fall into insanity. Lady Macbeth doesnt see visions like our other character Macbeth but she sleepwalks going through every action took after murdering Duncan. (5.1.10-80) Lady Macbeth was monitored by a doctor and a witness. While she sleep walks Lady Macbeth said, “Out, damned spot! out, I say! – One: two: why, then, ’tis time to do’t. – Hell is murky! – Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and