How Is Guilt Shown In Macbeth

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Macbeth is represented by all three pictures during the play, but I believe the true Macbeth is ultimately represented by the third picture. This image represents a man of immense guilt and dread who looks ill and haunted. Events guided by his own actions lead to his downfall, from a valiant man loyal to king and country, his driving ambition and greed lead to his fall from grace and death.
His darker side causes Macbeth to indulge in what the weird sisters proposed to him to further his ambition “Let not light see my black and deep desires”. “Something wicked comes this way” the weird sisters, considered to be extraordinarily evil, refer to Macbeth as wicked. This is his first step of decline. He pursues his ambitions cautiously and hopes it will not be noticed.
Driven by his own ambition and his wife’s ambition, Macbeth becomes a convincing liar to those …show more content…
Guilt weighs heavily on him ‘all of great Neptune’s oceans his blood from my hands? No!”
He fears that what he has done and what will be done to him, “blood will have blood.” His further decline becomes apparent when he requests for the murderers to kill Banquo, “masking the business from the common eye” he does not want anyone to think he had any part in Banquo’s death, but he is concerned about retribution, he is fearful of ghosts, purgatory and hell.
Banquo’s ghost, his fear of dying and the hell awaiting him in the afterlife become very real to him. The valiant man is in decline.
When Lady Macbeth dies, it is the ruin of Macbeth as he sees in his speech of despair insisting that his life has no meaning ‘It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury significantly nothing’.
The broken and haunted man who tried to manage the “Natural order of things”, to manipulate, murder and control events simply to further his own ambition was called the ‘Scourge of Scotland, and at the hand of MacDuff, Macbeth dies a “dwarfish

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