Trevor Reznik from The Machinist hasn't slept in over a year. He suffers from severe insomnia from guilt after killing a young girl on accident with his car. He begins to lose weight drastically, hanging around the wrong crowd, takes the blame for a fellow coworker who lost his arm after Trevor starts up a machine on accident, and even begins to hallucinate committing murders and much worse. The guilt we feel can take over our lives and lead us to our own moral demise. Many characters in Macbeth understand guilt whether its Macbeth seeing the ghost of a murdered friend or unable to scrub off blood that may or not be there. Shakespeare uses plenty of examples of hallucinations and guilt within his stories. During Macbeth, Macbeth visualizes many instances of hallucinations. These hallucinations are caused due to his guilt from the murders and crimes he has committed. The first hallucination he encounters is visualizing the dagger which points to Duncan's chamber. The dagger is almost comparable to a moral compass which is leading him to do the wrong thing and is explained in this quote,“Thou marshall'st me the …show more content…
Lady Macbeth is beginning to show signs of immense guilt. “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” (5,1,35). Lady Macbeth looks down at her hands and realizes they are covered in blood. This can be both literally and figuratively due to her hectoring Macbeth about his masculinity and manhood by pressuring him into the murder of Duncan and finally realizing that all the blood is on her hands. This is comparable to when in The Machinist, Trevor Reznik believes that a car is chasing after him and when he describes that car to the police, it's actually the car he drove when he murdered the young girl 15 years before. Trevor began to go insane and hallucinate just like Lady Macbeth did when she was seeing blood on her hands and over her