Guilt In Macbeth

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In his famous play “Macbeth,” William Shakespeare deals with many important themes about his man should and shouldn't lead his life. One such theme deals with moral guilt - whether a man is morally guilty of all the actions in his life, or is a man innocent if some because he is a victim of outside foreces that push him into doing the things he dies. For example one of the reasons that it was Lady Macbeth that forced Macbeth into killing the king was when she called him a coward. Lady Macbeth said “As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that/ Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life/And live a coward in thine own esteem,/ Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,”/Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage? Lady Macbeth criticizes Macbeth’s weakened resolve to secure the crown (ornament of life) and calls him a coward. She compares him to a cat in a …show more content…

“What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature, is too full o'th' milk of human kindness” (act 1, scene 5, page 35). Lady Macbeth is going to have to talk Macbeth into killing king Duncan. She thinks that he is to weak minded to kill the king. She knows that Macbeth has been loyal to the king but she knows she can manipulate him to kill King Duncan. The quote that shows this is “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round” (act 1, scene 5, page 35). Lady Macbeth says she is going to organise the murder so all Macbeth has to do is worry about the actual murder. She knows that Macbeth is t strong enough to plan and kill the king. So she makes up a plan with no trails leading to them so they can kill the king successfully. She knows that it is going to be hard to get Macbeth to complete the murder so she goes ahead and does what she can to get it

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