Guilt In Macbeth

Macbeth, a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare displays the many ways that guilt affects a character. This affect is shown clearly through the character of Macbeth, a kindly man whose deeply love for a woman caused him to commit dreadful actions, and because of his sensitive persona, was unable to bare with the burden of guilt and shame. Even though Macbeth seemed like a man who was indestructible, Shakespeare figured a way to make his external guilt and shame strong enough to lead to his deterioration.

At the begging of the play Macbeth, Macbeth is portrayed as an honorable man and a hero who saved the land from war. Many praised him, and no one would of thought that he was capable of committed a crime that would betray his whole

As strong as Macbeth try’s to act on the outside he is actually a weakening man on the inside with desperation of help. In front of his friends, Macbeths acts as a man of supremacy, a man who is willing to keep proving his power, Philip Barker contents “seeking power and perfection;” this is a clear connection to why Macbeth is behaving in this manner. He wants to feel more valuable, yet behind closed doors. Macbeth is weak; he is slowing getting into a stage that he can’t even bare himself. He hides his guilt until after the death of Banquo. His guiltiness for killing his best friend is so strong that it leads to Macbeth having hallucinations over Banquo. At the night dinner Macbeth, in front of his entire guest becomes senseless, saying that he sees Banquo in front of him “Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.”(act 3 scene 4 page4 ) Even after the worry and the sleepless nights ““Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more” (act2 scene 2) Macbeth still doesn’t stop committing further wrongdoings. From so much anxiety Macbeth decides to visit the witches and see if they will tell more information to see if he can be at peace, but instead the witches tell Macbeth “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.”, (act 4 sence 1). Macbeth wanting no one to be a threat to him and decides to murder Macduff, nonetheless this death was not going to be easy. Macbeth is already as his weakest point and is “leading to escalation of an already tenses situation”,(phil) and slowly the town is becoming aware of who he is. In attempt to murder Macduff, Macbeth gives up he know that he has lost the battle and finally realized that it was the