Guilt

Guilt

1. Causes madness

   • Macbeth and Lady lose sanity after killing Duncan

2. 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' Witches

   • Palindrome
   • Shows how supernatural the witches are

3. 'Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires.' Macbeth

   • He welcomes darkness.
   • Shows his desire to be king. Ambition
   • Light may be referred to as God, people

4. 'Horrid image...make my seated heart knock at my ribs.'

   • He is shocked to imagine killing the king
     • King was closest to God in 1600s so treason was serious

5. Lady Macbeth's guilt is subconscious

   • 'will these hands ne'er be clean.
     • Act 1 scene 5 she says' a little water clears us of this deed'
   • carries a 'taper'