How Is Guilt Shown In Macbeth

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth uses the themes of ambition and guilt to convey the depth of human nature. Shakespeare shows that when ambition is left unchecked, it will lead to an inevitably tragic fate. Furthermore, guilt is used to teach the audience that we are unable to escape our wrong doings. Shakespeare being a Christian humanist his views are apparent throughout the play as they promote free will and christian beliefs, these beliefs along with Macbeth's ambition and guilt teach the audience much about human nature.
Shakespeare uses the theme of ambition throughout Macbeth to show how it can cloud a person's mind and cause them to make irreversible decisions. As shown in the excerpt," Two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling

No... "; in this scene, Macbeth is using hyperbole and symbolism to show the magnitude of his sins and his guilt by saying that he will never get rid of his sins and that he has been forever corrupted. Shakespeare is saying in this quote that the guilt and shame a person feels after the crime will follow them forever. Later in the play when Macbeth gives the order to get Banquo killed, he begins to hallucinate that Banquo is present as a ghost. This is in the passage, "Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold." Thou hast no speculation in those eyes." (3.4) This passage shows the toll that guilt takes on the mind and how it can make people think and act irrationally. For instance, in this case, Macbeth is being "haunted by the ghost of Banquo," but in reality, he is being haunted by his own guilt. At the end of the play, we can see that the guilt has finally eaten Macbeth and Lady Macbeth away, as in the quote, "To bed, to bed. There's a knock at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's done cannot be undone." (5.1). These were the last words Lady Macbeth said to Macbeth when the people began raiding the castle; she uses repetition and motifs to finally accept what they have done and she begins to realise that they are destined to die and go to hell, and upon realizing this, Lady Macbeth commits suicide. Shakespeare uses many Christian humanist motifs in Macbeth for instance; the idea of good and evil which is seen in Macbeth and Banquo, whilst also being seen through the world around the characters, as Macbeth went further down his path of evil the world around him began to degrade showing the relationship between the natural world and the themes of good and evil. Overall, Shakespeare uses the guilt and Christian humanism to show the audience