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Macbeth is visited by the ghost of Banquo, who he murdered to protect his secret. The apparition embodies Macbeth’s guilt and therefore causes Macbeth to nearly reveal the truth about King Duncan’s murder.

Later, Macbeth's guilt takes visual form when he hallucinates that a blood-covered dagger is leading him to murder Duncan.

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"Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more”
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red.” (II. ii. 63-66).

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Driving force behind her husband’s actions.

Lady Macbeth’s guilt is subconsciously expressed through her dreams.

By the end of the play Lady Macbeth’s guilt becomes untenable and she eventually kills herself.

She writes a letter, but the reader does not know what the letter says. It is possible she is writing about her guilty feelings, or writing an apology letter. Although the letters content is unknown, Lady Macbeth does end her life as a result of her guilty conscience.

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"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.”(V. i. 38-40)

“Wash your hands put on your nightgown. Look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.”(V. i. 54-56)

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Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth Lusts for power, manipulating her Husband in her ambition for the crown.
Quote
"Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be

What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness

To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great,

Art not without ambition, but without

The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,

That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,

And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'ld’st have, great Glamis,

That which cries, “Thus thou must do,” if thou have it,

And that which rather thou dost fear to do,

Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither,

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear

And chastise with the valor of my tongue

All that impedes thee from the golden round,

Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem

To have thee crowned withal."

(Act 1 /scene 5)

Character
Macbeth
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Macbeth becomes assured in his actions and strives for the crown and power
Quotes
"I am settled and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show.
False face must hide what the false heart doth
know"

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Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

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When Lady sought after the crown and decided to attack Macbeth masculinity  in order to manipulate him into carrying out her own aspirations

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"When you derst do it, then you were man, And to be more than what you were,and you would be so much more a man"

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 CharacterWitches                      Quote"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air" (1.1.11-12).               DiscussionThis is a motif that runs throughout the play. This describes Macbeth himself; king Duncan believes Macbeth to be a loyal servant but Macbeth eventually betrays Duncan’s trust and murders him to steal the throne. It is supernatural that three witches could predict how Macbeth sacrifices his friends for his ambition.

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 CharacterWitches                      Quote"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air" (1.1.11-12).               DiscussionThis is a motif that runs throughout the play. This describes Macbeth himself; king Duncan believes Macbeth to be a loyal servant but Macbeth eventually betrays Duncan’s trust and murders him to steal the throne. It is supernatural that three witches could predict how Macbeth sacrifices his friends for his ambition.

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Quote“all hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter”Discussion Predicting the future ...

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Quote“all hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter”Discussion Predicting the future ...

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THIRD WITCH
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
[…]
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! (1.3.53;70-71)

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Act 1, Scene 7
Guilt 1: Guilt has a large part in manipulating how Macbeth and his wife act after they have committed their crimes. It is their guilt that drives them both mad. Before they have even killed Duncan, Macbeth feels guilty and considers backing out of the murder, but Lady Macbeth won't let him.

Act 2, Scene 1
Guilt 2: Once again Macbeth sees that what he is doing is morally wrong, but he doesn't let that stop him. He kills the king despite his misgivings.

Act 2, Scene 2
Guilt 3: Macbeth begins hearing things as soon as the murder is completed. He cannot even pray because he is so guilt-ridden over his crime.

Act 2, Scene 3
Guilt 4: Lady Macbeth faints at the news that Duncan is dead. Whether it is a trick on her part to throw the others off the trail, or if she has finally seen the weight of the crime that she and her husband have committed is unspecified in the text. Either way, this action is either a realization of guilt or a disguise of it.

Act 3, Scene 2
Guilt 5: Lady Macbeth feels that her husband is thinking too much of his guilt and not enjoying his royalty as he should be.

Act 3, Scene 4
Guilt 6: Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost at the banquet table and it freaks him out. His guilty conscience is projecting visions of Banquo because he is responsible for the man's murder. Outbursts like these hint at his guilt and make the thanes suspicious of the new king.

Guilt 7: After Macbeth's breakdown in front of the thanes, Lady Macbeth tells him to get some rest. Macbeth hasn't been sleeping well because he feels so guilty.

Act 5, Scene 1
Guilt 8: Lady Macbeth's guilt is finally getting to her, too. She sleepwalks and tries to wash the blood from her hands. This routine and her sleep talking are manifestations and proof of her guilt.

Act 5, Scene 2
Guilt 9: Malcolm and the thanes who have sided with him have heard that Macbeth is going mad, and they assume that his madness is a result of the guilt for his crimes.

Act 5, Scene 5

Guilt 10: Lady Macbeth has died (perhaps suicide), and her guilt is believed to be the cause of her death. Her conscience got the better of her in the end.

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MACBETH
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmiseAnd nothing is but what is not. (1.3.147-155)

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DUNCAN
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.—Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And you whose places are the nearest, know
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The Prince of Cumberland; which honor must
Not unaccompanied invest him only,
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers.—From hence to Inverness
And bind us further to you. (1.4.39-49)

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MACBETH

Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off; (1.7.16-20)

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PORTER
Knock, knock! Who's there, in th'
other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator
that could swear in both the scales against either
scale; who committed treason enough for God's
sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in,
equivocator. (2.3.7-11)

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Macduff

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Fleance: King as Banquo's son
Macbeth: Commits Regicide
Lady Macbeth: Helps to commit treason
McDuff: Kills Macbeth to regain power
Malcom: Takes back his throan

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guilt

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noun

1. 1.

2. the fact of having committed a specified or implied offence or crime.

1. "it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt"

2. synonyms: | culpability, guiltiness, blameworthiness, wrongdoing, wrong, wrongfulness, criminality, unlawfulness, misconduct, delinquency, sin, sinfulness, iniquity; More

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verbinformal

1. 1.

2. short for guilt-trip.

1. "Celeste had been guilted into going by her parents"

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	1. Why do you think shakespeare wants the Audience to think about this issue?	- To make us question if every person's secret motivation is to gain power over others. Additionally, to make the audience question if after they gain all they have sought it shall be futile as we will lose it anyways.	2. How does this theme develop as the play progresses?	- This theme develops as Macbeth gains more power, taking it from others and the opposing force increases to the point where Macbeth loses all. This is the slow progression of not only his struggle for power, but the other's struggle for power to take it back.	 3. Which scenes do they play an important part in?	- Where Macbeth kills the king, Where Macbeth kills MacDuff's Family and where Macbeth headstrong faces MacDuff on the battlefield.

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	1. Why do you think shakespeare wants the Audience to think about this issue?	- To make us question if every person's secret motivation is to gain power over others. Additionally, to make the audience question if after they gain all they have sought it shall be futile as we will lose it anyways.	2. How does this theme develop as the play progresses?	- This theme develops as Macbeth gains more power, taking it from others and the opposing force increases to the point where Macbeth loses all. This is the slow progression of not only his struggle for power, but the other's struggle for power to take it back.	 3. Which scenes do they play an important part in?	- Where Macbeth kills the king, Where Macbeth kills MacDuff's Family and where Macbeth headstrong faces MacDuff on the battlefield.