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After researching the connotation of the quote, I realized that relating it to current events was not as easy as it conveyed to be. Shakespeare depicted a situation in which both parties were guilty of an act, yet they differed from one another by means of who accepted the sin they committed and who allowed cowardice to consume them. Through the quote, Shakespeare highlights how Lady Macbeth's ridicule of Macbeth's cowardice or mask or innocence leads to his self-demise.

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President Nixon took responsibility of his actions in the Watergate Scandal in 1974 which connected to what Macbeth refused to do in which was to assume responsibility in murdering King Duncan.

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In 2008 Casey Anthony was convicted and later acquitted of the murder of her daughter, Caylee Anthony. This case connects to the quote as both Macbeth and Casey Anthony convey themselves as innocent.

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Within the most ridiculed presidential election in America, lies the guilt both Trump and Clinton face for hiding differing vital aspects of their past lives. In Trump's case, his tax returns; and in Hilary's her deleted emails-both individuals were "wearing a heart so white" as they portrayed themselves as innocent of hiding factors that could've affected their campaign.

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Trump: I'll release taxes if Clinton releases emails - CNN Video

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Donald Trump says he will release his tax returns if Hillary Clinton releases the emails that she deleted.

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In the quote Lady Macbeth recognizes the responsibility both she and Macbeth take in the act of murdering Duncan yet she differs from Macbeth as she claims she "shames to wear a heart so white", conveying that she refuses to have a heart masked with cowardice or innocence.

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In this past year, celebrities Johnny Depp and Amber Heard endured a divorce that they further worsened with accusations of one another. Heard accused Depp of domestic abuse and in response Depp accused her of publicizing the divorce for financial gain. Both are guilty of accusations in relation to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth being guilty of murder.

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In 2007, American student Amanda Knox was accused of the murder of her roommate in Italy. The prosecution team and investigators filed a flawed case against her with inept evidence. Within this situation both Amanda Knox and Italian investigators prosecuting against her are guilty. Which directly relates to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and how they share the sense of guilt in their own unique situations.

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ROME-Italy's top criminal court scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, saying Monday it threw out their convictions for the 2007 murder of her British roommate in part because there was no proof they were in the bedroom where the woman was fatally stabbed.

The Court of Cassation issued its formal written explanation, as required by Italian law, for its March ruling - vindicating the pair once and for all in the murder of Meredith Kercher in the apartment the two women shared while students in Perugia, Italy.

It wrote there was an "absolute lack of biological traces" of Ms. Knox, an American, or of co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito in the room or on the victim's body. It slammed the quality of the prosecution's case from the start.

The path of the case took was "objectively wavering, whose oscillations are ... the result also of stunning weakness or investigative bouts of amnesia and of blameworthy omissions of investigative activity," the court wrote. Had the investigation not been so shaky, "in all probability" the defendants' guilt or innocence could have been determined from the earliest stages, the panel said.

Media clamor was also a factor in what was ultimately a flawed case, the high court concluded.

In March, the high court declared that Ms. Knox, now 28, and Mr. Sollecito, now 31, didn't murder 21-year-old Ms. Kercher, a stronger exoneration than merely finding there was insufficient evidence to convict.

Had the Cassation Court upheld the 2014 appeals court's convictions of the pair, Ms. Knox would have faced 28½ years in an Italian prison, assuming she would have been extradited from the U.S., while Mr. Sollecito had been facing 25 years.

"I am deeply grateful that the Italian Supreme Court has filed its opinion and forcefully declared my innocence," Ms. Knox said in a statement posted Monday on her website. "This has been a long struggle for me, my family, my friends, and my supporters."

"I will now begin the rest of my life with one of my goals being to help others who have been wrongfully accused," she wrote.

Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito served nearly four years in Italian prison after a lower court conviction. They had always insisted on their innocence. A man from Ivory Coast, Rudy Hermann Guede, was convicted in separate proceedings and is serving a 16-year sentence.

The Cassation panel of five judges essentially concluded that while there were indications Mr. Guede could have had accomplices, nothing in the prosecutors' case proved that either Ms. Knox or Mr. Sollecito were involved in the murder.

It also wrote that the Florence appeals court that convicted them last year ignored expert testimony that "clearly demonstrated possible contamination" of evidence and misinterpreted findings about the knife allegedly used to slit Ms. Kercher's throat, in what prosecutors had described as a sexual assault.

"The kitchen knife, found in Sollecito's house and the supposed crime weapon, was kept in an ordinary cardboard box, like the kind that Christmas gadgets are packaged in," the Cassation judges noted. In any case, no traces of blood were found on it, they wrote.

Examples of investigative ineptitude abound in the report.

"The computers of Amanda Knox and Kercher, which perhaps could have furnished information useful to the investigation, were, incredibly, burned by imprudent maneuvers by the investigators, who caused an electric shock" apparently through a charging error, the panel of judges wrote.

Even the supposed time of death, as argued by prosecutors, reflected a "deplorable approximation," they wrote.

A bra clasp of the victim, which prosecutors argued carried a trace of Mr. Sollecito's DNA, was on the floor of the murder scene for 46 days and then "was passed from hand to hand of the workers, who, furthermore, were wearing dirty latex gloves," the panel said.

One of Mr. Sollecito's lawyers, Giulia Bongiorno, praised the Cassation Court's 52-page conclusion "for having the courage to underline the gravity of the investigative errors and for making the gravity of the judicial error understandable."

Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito were first convicted by a Perugia court in 2009, and then acquitted after an appeals court trial. They were convicted again in 2014, after a separate Cassation Court panel overturned those acquittals and ordered the Florence appeals.

But the high court also concluded Monday that some circumstances might never be known. It wrote that it couldn't be ruled out that Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito might have been elsewhere in the house the night of the murder. And it raised the oft-cited question of why Ms. Knox identified an African man as the suspect when later another African man was convicted of the slaying.

The judges said they ruled out the possibility of ordering yet one more trial. Another trial would have been "useless," they said, after citing contradictions in the prosecutors' case and problems with handling of the evidence.

The Cassation panel said Ms. Knox did deserve her conviction and three-year sentence for slandering a Congolese-born Perugia pub owner whom she initially indicated as the murder suspect. The man had been jailed until an alibi led to his release. Because Ms. Knox served prison time for the initial murder conviction, she didn't face prison when the slander conviction was upheld in March.

-Copyright 2015 the Associated Press

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Italy's Top Court Slams Prosecution's Case Against Amanda Knox

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ROME-Italy's top criminal court scathingly faulted prosecutors for presenting a flawed and hastily constructed case against Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, saying Monday it threw out their convictions for the 2007 murder of her British roommate in part because there was no proof they were in the bedroom where the woman was fatally stabbed.

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In the first portion of the quote, "My hands are of your color", Lady Macbeth recognizes her hands are also filthy with guilt and sin as she aids Macbeth in the murder of King Duncan.

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In the 1920's Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were an infamous pair whom were guilty of numerous murders alike Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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The movie Mr. and Mrs Smith relates to the quote on a basis that both characters being depicted are guilty of the acts they've committed. The synopsis of the movie entails that husband and wife, John and Jane are both guilty of hiding the secret of their occupation from one another. John and Jane are both guilty of hiding the secret which compares to the guilt Macbeth and Lady Macbeth share when hiding the identity of the murderer of King Duncan.

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One day after school me and my sister planned on going to the library to study but instead went to the nail salon. When I informed my mom of the change of plans I also told her the quote and she replied with a text of a question mark.

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As me and my younger brother were cleaning out our dishwasher, we broke a plate in which I responded with the quote and he looked at me strangely.

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Among silently studying with my friend Shannon I recited the quote in which she questioned if I was referring to the quote project as she had that same quote assigned to her.

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"My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white" -Lady  Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 63-64

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"My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white" -Lady  Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 63-64

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My initial reaction to the list of quotes was to chose one that would be easy to decipher and apply to myself and other topics. I chose this quote as it encompasses one of the main themes of the play, guilt.