Guilt In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

Most people in the world become obsessed with power, which their ambition takes over for more power, till those who fail feel regret from the kind of things they did for power, becoming overwhelmed with guilt that destroys them. As in William Shakespeare Macbeth, the story of the Thane of Glamis, Macbethturned into Thane of Clawthor, who in the play was met with the three witches telling Macbeth and his squire, Banquo their fates. \ After Macbeth and his good friend Banquo hear their prophecies, which Macbeth later tells Lady Macbeth, it convinces her that Macbeth must become king no matter what. So later when King Duncan came to stay over at Macbeth’s castle to celebrate, Lady Macbeth gets the idea of killing Duncan for the throne. Many hours

An example to prove Macbeth’s Guilt and Ambition is when he states the following “No son of mine succeed.If’t be so ,-For Banquo issue have I filled my mind-For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered;-Put rancors in the vessel of my peace-Only for them; and mine eternal jewel-Given to the common enemy of man,-To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!-Rather than so, come fate into the list,-And champion me to th utterance. Whos there?” (Shakespeare 3.1 64-72) In this part of the play, After Macbeth kills Duncan he starts to connect some dots to what the prophecies that the witches had told Banquo and him, that Macbeth would be king, but Banquo's descendants would be kings, so he starts to feel less guilty about the murder, saying how he had to do that just for Banquo's descendants to become kings in place of Macbeth. In which the Amibion theme starts to take place here, Macbeth has forgotten about how guilty he was about killing Duncan, that now he soon to be uncontrollable desire to stay king and for more power starts to show, showing the side of him that despises the people that stand in the way of him being king for

As in the play states “One cried,”God bless us!” and “Amen” the other-As they had seen me with those hasmas’s hands-Listening their fear I could not say “Amen”- Whom they did say “God bless us !”(Shakespeare 2.2 24-27)

In this scene Macbeth overcome with guilt has difficult saying amen, which is a huge problem for him since in what situation would he say “Amen” after committing such a huge sin, also right after the other people cried saying “God bless us!” making it seem as they had seen what Macbeth had done, making him even more guilty about the situation, which in the later parts of the play will be his