Guilt can affect people in ways that aren't even fathomable by causing anxiety, stress, and regret but guilt could even drive someone mad if they refused to open up and fix the issue instead of submerging themselves deeper in their shame for example in the story of Macbeth by Shakespeare Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself slowly submerge themselves in guilt ending with Lady Macbeth committing suicide and Macbeth driving himself insane before being slayed by Macduff. So, in "Macbeth," William Shakespeare uses the dangers of mental health to convey how easily people can form guilt.
Guilt can cause bad mental health by ultimately causing anxiety and regret and this is shown in the story of Macbeth by emphasizing how the characters feel in their speech in Act 2 Scene 2 Lines 34 - 38 Macbeth says "Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor’s
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And this is shown in "Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt I must scream or die!" in this quote his guilt has come to a climax and is no longer bearable which leads to him giving the information up and ultimately declaring him insane from the police's perceptions and the narrator's punctuation throughout the quote shows the central idea of guilt in the sentence, but guilt is also shown throughout the text when he says “Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!” this quote shows his guilt because according to the narrator, his