Most of this guilt started just after act two scene two when Macbeth kills King Duncan. Lady Macbeth is restlessly waiting for Macbeth to arrive home, and when he does, he is in a state of distress. "This is a sorry sight"(line 29), he told her. . "A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight". Macbeth was horrified with what he had done and can not bring himself to relive his dreadful deeds, he could not believe what he had gotten himself into; he had killed an innoc

ent man which he once honored, and a man who many people cherished as king. He says that he fear's God's wrath, that he can no longer pray and that a voice has said to him "sleep no more.” that night Macbeth was encircled by a never ending guilt.

Neither Macbeth nor Lady Macbeth ever found a way to forgive themselves for the things they had done and as a result had to suffer through some hard times and both lives ending tragically. Macduff was another character who had feelings of guilt for leaving his family home alone to be murdered. The main difference between Macduff and Macbeth is that Macduff brought himself to find forgiveness; he realized that his family was gone and that he must move on and save Scotland. If Macbeth would have found a way to forgive himself and start over as a good person things might not have ended the way they did.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both dealt with their guilt in different ways. Lady Macbeth just pushed it aside in the begging and went on with her life, but eventually it caught up with her and it hit her hard. Lady Macbeth became a nervous wreck, she could not sleep, she walked in her sleep and she was obsessed with washing away the blood from her hands. Macbeth felt guilty even before he had murdered Duncan, he felt guilty just for having such ideas in his head, but the idea of him being King of Scotland overweighed his psychological guilt. At times it seemed that Macbeth almost became immune to all of this guilt but in the end it gets the worst of him. I think both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had reasons to react differently, after all Lady Ma

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