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Role Of Guilt In Macbeth

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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth murdered so many people, but why did he do that? He killed Macduff's family and murdered many other people right after he killed Duncan. Guilt is what drove them to kill all of those people. Somethings to know is that macbeth was loyal to the king and was great friends with banquo before he killed duncan. Guilt is to blame for the deaths of lady macbeth. because the guilt banquo made macbeth feel and how duncan made lady macbeth feel. But some might say that the witches prophecies may be the reason why lady macbeth and macbeth died. “The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?—What, will these hands ne'er be clean?—No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. You mar all with this starting.” (Shakespeare act 5 scene 1 page 45). Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you? Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send Those …show more content…

If thou canst nod, speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. (shakespeare act 3 scene 4) macbeth's guilt got the best of him when he saw banquo's ghost and started to freak out making everyone seeing the king as weird. Also this isn't the only time guilt appears. Guilt also appears on lady macbeth as well. Lady macbeth is guilty because of the death of duncan. When lady macbeth was sleepwalking and went to wash her hands and in her mind she said she couldn't get the blood off of her hands. However some might say the witches might have been the reason for her death Another possible way of the deaths of macbeth and lady macbeth could be the witches. The witches gave macbeth prophecies. How could the witches kill anyone if they only appear rarely in the book, they really didn't do anything but actually help macbeth. If the witches give them the prophecies and never do another thing to macbeth again that's all they did then they aren't responsible for the death of

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