guilt

guilt

1. key moments

   • after regicide
     • macbeth feels guilty
       • adired king duncan
   • nightmares
     • too much on his mind - full of scorpion in my ming

2. key quote

   • 'will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood from my hands?'
     • symbols of guilt
       • impossible to wash off. it's a sin
     • god of the sea
     • rhetorical question
       • confused
   • 'methought i heard a voice cry' sleep no more!''
     • hallucination of hearing voices
       • guilt
     • madness
     • sleeplessness
       • can't be undone
         • be guilty forever
   • 'never shake thy gory locks at me'
     • blood in his hair
       • guilt
     • terror of the ghost
       • shows how troubled he is
   • 'blood will have blood'
     • more guilt more blood
     • trapped in this cycle of guilt
     • repetition of blood
     • short sentance
   • 'out, out damned spot!'
     • blood on her hand
     • never leave her stain
     • she is mad

3. key characters

   • macbeth
     • becomes mad
     • more violent
     • dies by macduff
   • lady macbeth
     • resist at the beginning
     • overwhelmed by guilt
     • kill herself

4. symbols

   • blood
     • lady macbeth on hands
       • because of the regicide
     • can't wash it off
     • stained her conscience
   • sleeplessness
   • hallucination
     • lady macbeth sleepwalking
     • macbeth sees a dagger and banquo ghost
       • banquo's ghost- his friend
       • dagger- shows him the duncan's chamber

5. context

   • regicide
     • crime against god
       • great chain of being
     • killing the king
     • sins and unnatural acts
       • extreme guilt
   • women
     • weaker than men
       • patriarchal
       • lady macbeth kills her self