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What Is Macbeth's Guilt

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The play “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is about how guilt weighs in on a person's conscious and reveals how if strong enough, guilt can make someone so paranoid that they cannot think straight. Macbeth’s guilt begins to rise after he kills King Duncan to gain power. Macbeth first shows his guilt when he says “ To Know my deed ‘twere best not know myself” (2.3 71). Macbeth is basically saying that in order for him to comprehend what he has done, he must lose his conscience. From this point in the story, Macbeth’s guilt avalanches into something huge that Macbeth didn’t expect. Shakespeare reveals Macbeth's guilt also, when Macbeth says “[to the Ghost]. Thou canst not say I did it. Never Shake Thy gory locks at me.” ( Shakespeare
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