The Guilt of Lady Macbeth

Have you ever been around lots of blood? Have you ever committed a crime and felt guilty about it? I hope not! Well on the other hand, Macbeth by William Shakespeare is all about that. The play includes a Scottish couple who has envy towards a king and they want to take him off his throne. A long play that involves blood, guilt, power and lots of violence. Symbolism is used in this play to give a better understanding of how Macbeth really was and how she felt.

Doing whatever weather it was killing or any other form of violence Lady Macbeth was willing to do whatever to get to where she wanted. Power is something a lot of people dream of having and want. Well Lady Macbeth was no different. In Act 1, Scene 5, Line 40-41 we read Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse¦? She asked the powers of evil to make her strong like a man, in case her husband cannot follow through with the murder of King Duncan. She wanted to seek and gain power, lots of power. She was willing to do the dirty work. She wasn’t afraid of blood. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare we lots of violence. We see how violent Lady Macbeth is. Well in Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 53-55 we also read If he do bleed, i’ll gleed the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt’ meaning she’ll cover the servants with blood, blaming them for the murder.

In this part we see how violent her thoughts were. She planned the whole thing and show no remorse as to committing the murder. She was the bad influence in the whole picture. Guilt is something a lot of people cannot live with. Knowing you did something bad and not have any consequences. When committing the crime Macbeth felt real real guilty. She wanted to be slick about it. Not trying to leave any traces. She washed all the blood off her hands like it was nothing. Throughout the whole play we all see what Macbeth wanted. We also noticed that she was willing to seek the power she was obsessed with. We see guilt and how it is used to show how she really wasn’t afraid to do anything. We get to also see how violence was used and we also see the power she was trying to gain.

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