Macbeth

Macbeth The decisions that a person makes can either hurt him or benefit him. In the cases of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, their choices definitely caused psychological damage. The guilt that they feel after committing Duncan’s murder overtakes them and eventually leads them to constant feelings of anxiousness and remorse. They serve as examples that guilt, ambition, and manipulation can lead to one’s downfall. The guilt that comes along with committing the murder is too much for Macbeth and his wife to tolerate. Macbeth feels repentance right after he murdered the king. “‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’- the innocent sleep…” (2.2.34-35). He cannot sleep because he is haunted by recollections of killing Macbeth. After hiring people to kill Banquo, he imagines that Banquo’s ghost is sitting at a table during the banquet. He becomes convinced that the spirit is not just a hallucination. His mind has become irrational and distorted, but to avoid suspicion, he tells his people that he has a mental illness and proceeds to make a toast to Banquo. At first, Lady Macbeth does not experience the overwhelming feelings of guilt that her macbeth, guilt, become, after, murder, king, committing, ambition, remorse, people, once, murders, much, make, life, leads, lady, killing, husband, feels, feelings, eventually, constant, caused, becomes, banquo’s, banquo, ‘sleep, words, wife, we’d, ways, water, warns, vaulting