Who Is Banquo's Guilt In Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth was written in the 1600s by WIlliam Shaksphere.The play takes place in the 11th century and takes place in Scotland. In the Tragedy of Macbeth, the main characters are Macbeth, as well as his wife Lady Macbeth. The play thrives off of ambition. Macbeth’s main motivation is to become King. Lady Macbeth encouraged Macbeth to commit acts against the great chain of being. Due to Macbeth’s ambition to gain the power of being king, this interfered with the great chain of being. The play concludes Macbeth becoming king, but with some setbacks. Macbeth loses his purpose and can't go back to change things, and is living with the guilt. Shakespeare uses the great chain of being in the Tragedy of Macbeth to show that it has been

Macbeth starts to see visions. The first vision Macbeth saw was a dagger, leading himself to duncan on the night of the murder, and later of Banquo's ghost.”Banquo's ghost, in particular, plagues him, and reveals the guilt he feels over the death of his former friend.”(Labbe 3) This quote is expressing that banquo's ghost reveals to Macbeth the guilt he feels over the passing of his former friend. At one point in the play, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were having a dinner with a few people and Macbeth started acting weird, so Lady Macbeth pulled him aside and talked to him. ”And push us from our stools:this is more strange than such a murder is.”(Macbeth 3.4. 1373-1374) This is Macbeth trying to explain to Lady Macbeth what he is seeing. Macbeth is saying returning from the dead is more strange than the original murder, and that he is seeing banquo's ghost. Lady Macbeth tells him to brush it off, and act normal. In Act 5 Scene 1, Macbeth sees apparitions. The three apparitions he saw was an armed head, a bloody child, as well as a child crowned,with a tree in his hand. This is just another example on a hallucination that Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is wishing to become masculine. This request is going against the great chain of being, because this was very uncommon, as well as not accepted in this time period. In the play, Lady Macbeth plays the role of the man a few times , and is wanting to be unsexed. “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.” (The Tragedy of Macbeth 1.5 391) Lady Macbeth is reaching out to the spirits to give her the strength of a man. It is also shown again in act 1, “Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.”(Macbeth 1.5.498-499). In act 1 scene 5, the play is saying that she wants to be more violent, and that she wants to be a terrible person. She is also saying she wants to do stuff like men. In the Corruption and Theories of Kingship in Macbeth they menchion “She shows no remorse,no kindness;and her cold reaction to the murder- simply brushing the deed aside once it is done again-again suggests her twisted and unsexted state.”(Labbe, pg 2) This quote explains that she is not kind, and shows no remorse, and has little to no reaction from the murders. Lady Macbeth is simply continuing on and not looking back , and showing no signs of sorrow. In the murders of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth was always pushing Macbeth a little further than he wanted to go.”We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and well not fail. When Ducan is asleep Whereto the rather