Essays on Macbeth Guilt

A lot of people deal with guilt, whether they are children or adults, everyone deals with guilt at least once in their lifetime. Lots of guilt is shown in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Since guilt affects you physically and mentally, some characters are affected by guilt…

The feeling of someone always watching you, that you always have to watch your back. That’s how Macbeth felt, always watching around the corner, watching his steps, always doubting loyalty in others. He goes through things that change him and start the decline in his…

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character and his wife both desire success. They took extreme risks to accomplish what they wanted. While their savage process to get the most power and become King and Queen is successful at first, it rapidly falls into pieces. Macbeth…

In the extract, coming as it does towards the end of the play, Shakespeare portrays the guilt through the despair and lack of purpose in Macbeth’s life seen in his silent response towards his wife, Lady Macbeth’s death. This creates a contrast to the beginning…

Anne Rice exclaims, “The evil of one murder is infinite and my guilt is like my beauty – eternal. I cannot be forgiven for there is no one to forgive me for all I’ve done.” Most people would never consider killing another person for their…