Guilt

Guilt

1. Sh shows guilt as a powerful emotion and how eventually it will take over, and can create instability and torture in a person= leads to internal conflict

   • "to bed, top bed...whats done cannot be undone, to bed to bed"
     • Monosyllabic, repetition ion her sleep shows deeply shes feels guilty-troubled before she thought 'little water clears th deed but now she has 'blood still on her hands'- revese in characters n she knows she is to blame for the consequences that stemmed for the murder
   • "Neptunes ocean will wash this blood clean from my hand""
     • already tormented n immediently stuck by guilt, now feels insecue and is unsure om what to do - knows that he'd done a terrible crime-which will now be always on his conscience, all loyalty turn to guilt- blood imagery
   • "first i am his kingsmen and his subject..then as his host shall not bear the knife myself"
     • M knows d trusts him , he feels he shouln't be the one to murder him, as the guilt is aleady piling on him but still kills d, then he kills b with no second thought like l.m but when his ghost appears shows guilt, like l.m when she feels guilty after
   • "art to like the spirit of B, down!"
     • M shaken by the apparition of b shows he still feels guilty and shows emotional damage which leads to poor judgement bc he immediatly decide to raid Macduffs castle, M could not enjoy his rise of power bc of his guilty conscience she shows that do not get power if with G C
   • "My lord the queen is dead"
     • L.M is so upset with herself that she took her own life and sees no way out, shows emotional instability

2. "Banquo buried he cannot come out on his grave"

   • Confirms how Lady Macbeth is constantly thinking about deaths that she was part of, and how the feeling of guilt is taking over her life. Lady Macbeth shows her guilt throughout this whole scene. She writes a letter, but the reader does not know what the letter says.-she is writing about her guilty feelings, or writing an apology letter. Although the letters content is unknown, Lady Macbeth does end her life as a result of her guilty conscience.