Examples Of Guilt Quotes In Macbeth

Furthermore, as stated before guilt is a major value used throughout the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, another example, is shown in act 5 scene 1. At night, in the king’s palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and a gentlewoman discuss, Lady Macbeth’s strange routine of sleepwalking. They watch her for a while and talk about her actions as they watch. She washes her hands, her eyes are open but she is asleep. She continues washing and talking to herself about how much blood the old man had, the thane of fife had a wife and she is gone. She rambles on about her and her husband’s guilt, then she goes to her room and the doctor says that this manner of illness is further than his intelligence. In addition Lady Macbeth's guilt is finally getting to her, too by her
Soon she begins to feel guilty about what she has done, and how Macbeth has changed. Also it evident that she is feeling guilty due to her being obsessed with her washing invisible blood stains on her hands and how now she is completely destroyed by guilt and has left herself in madness . She says “Hell is murky” meaning that she already knows the feeling of darkness above all, in a real sense, she is already in hell as she is suffering from guilt. Due to in the play Macbeth there are a variety of techniques making the play more remarkable and fascinating. For instance in Act 5 scene 1 where Lady Macbeth quotes: “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!” in this case Lady Macbeth is feeling guilty because she couldn’t clean the smell of blood even with the best and strongest fragmented perfumes,due to being the blood being from the killings she has taken part in, and it shows that the guilt cannot be easily rid of, and anything in the world can’t remove her of her