Lady Macbeth Self Blame Analysis

William Shakespeare’s, Macbeth, is a theatrical piece is a very well known piece, it is by far one of the most studied pieces written by Shakespeare. Shakespeare is one of the most genius writers the world has seen, from sonnets to a full three hour plays, he is considered one of the best. Shakespeare was always able to keep everyone in the theater entertained, those from the “groundlings” sections to those who had a higher education level. Macbeth is a play about insanity, murder, sex, and tragedy; Macbeth goes on a rampage and has murder after murder on his hands. He murders everyone he’s close to, those who he trust, and those who know too much. In William Shakespeare’s theatrical play, Macbeth, I believe that everyone is to blame for the murders.

   Shakespeare's "Macbeth" holds many hidden themes within its already exuberant plot.  The first of these surrounds the murder of Duncan and the role that both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself played.  However, the true guilt of the murder can fall on either character.  Although Macbeth physically committed the crime, it was Lady Macbeth that pushed him to his limits of rational thought and essentially made fun of him to lower his esteem.  With Macbeth's defenses down, it was an easy task for Lady Macbeth to influence Duncan's murder and make up an excuse as to why she could not do it herself.  The guilt of Duncan's murder can be placed firmly on the head on Lady Macbeth.

In the Shakespeare play, Macbeth, Macbeth is responsible for all the deaths in the play because Macbeth didn’t have to do anything about the prophecies, he could have chosen not to kill King Duncan, and Macbeth decided all on his own to have Macduff’s family killed.

After he kills Duncan, Macbeth carries all the guilt, and is too shaken by shame to continue, while Lady Macbeth either feels no guilt, or represses it, because she is able to continue the deed and frame Duncan’s guards.

Macbeth, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare and edited by Maynard Mack and Robert Boynton, displays the many ways in which guilt manifests itself and the effects it has on its victims. Throughout the play, characters including Lady Macbeth are deeply affected by guilt in ways they had never expected. Macbeth takes its audience on a journey through the process in which guilty gradually eats away at Lady Macbeth and forces her to do what she thinks is best. Though Lady Macbeth may have initially seemed unaffected by the murders she had been involved in, her desires eventually faded and were replaced with an invincible feeling of guilt which eventually took her life.

The tragic downfall of Macbeth can be contributed to several key factors. Macbeth’s downfall can be attributed to his blind ambition, the influence of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s own insecurities and misgivings. Blind ambition combined with immoral goals, with Lady Macbeth’s influence and Macbeth’s personal doubts all lead to his inevitable downfall.

Guilt is a very strong and uncomfortable feeling that often results from one’s own actions. This strong emotion is one of the theme ideas in William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel guilt, but they react in different ways. Guilt hardens Macbeth, but cause Lady Macbeth to commit suicide. As Macbeth shrives to success guilt overcome’s Macbeth where he can no longer think straight. Initially Macbeth planned was to kill Duncan but it wasn’t enough he also had to kill Banquo and Macduff’s family. On the other hand Lady Macbeth had to call upon the weird sister to unsexed her so she had no true feeling towards anything as if she was a man. However, the true guilt of the murder

You can control guilt or guilt will drive you into madness. In the novel, Macbeth, guilt has taken over two of the main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, but each one responds to it in a different way. Their similarities and differences are quite obvious and both are driven to their actions by this feeling. It will eventually cause both of them a breakdown, affecting their behaviors and resulting them into going through a psychological incapacity.

Responsibility for the Tragic Events in Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth is one of Shakespeare four great tragedies. The witches, Lady

These predictions are effective in attracting Macbeth's attention because they feed off his desire for what they promise. At this point in the play he is the newly

“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?" (Exam Prompt). As explained in the prompt, there are three metaphors used to explain how people react to a situation. The prompt stated that when you add a potato, an egg, and a coffee bean to boiling water, each item reacts differently. Foremost the potato is "hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak" (Exam Prompt).

Tragedies happen to everyone, even to royalty. In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, that took place around the middle ages in England. Macbeth had unfortunate events occur to him throughout the play which was caused by himself, Lady Macbeth and the three witches. These three major characters in the play played a strong role as being the ones in fault in there own ways such as; ambition getting to Macbeth and controlling him into getting what he wants, Lady Macbeth for persuading, mulipinating, planning and controlling her husband to commit a series of horrific murders and the three witches for tempting and encouraging Macbeth to kill King Duncan.

In the Elizabethan Era, society was highly suspicious of the power of supernatural forces and it was commonly accepted that one’s life was governed by fate and was predetermined. Shakespeare’s Macbeth challenges the Elizabethan ideology of fate by privileging that although Macbeth was a victim of his “vaulting ambition” (1:VII 27), he was ultimately responsible for his villainous actions. Shakespeare has foregounded certain events to privilege that a person has free will and a concience and the cosequences of going against one's conscience, thus challenging the assumption of the Elizabethan Era. The audience is invited to sympathise with the protagonist, Macbeth, and see him as a tragic hero. Before his descent into evil, Macbeth

Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is still to this day one of the player writer's most successful works, for a variety of reasons. It is beautifully written, mostly consisting of Shakespeare’s signature unrhymed iambic pentameters, and though it is difficult to understand, it is a masterpiece that to this day amazes many. However, those are not the only reasons the tragedy gained so much popularity; unlike many of Shakespeare’s works, “Macbeth” still leaves the reader with many questions, even after the story ends. Not everything is explained by the author, and many times, the reader has to determine things for themselves. For example, who was the real killer of King Duncan? Though everyone has a different view on this question, one thing is clear: without Lady Macbeth’s influence, the king most likely would have never been slaughtered, and Macbeth may have never became king.

As the late English poet William Shakespeare said, “suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” In other words, the fear of getting caught is always a persistent thought in the mind of someone who is guilty. William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe both utilize literary devices to portray the theme of guilt in their stories and to show how a guilty conscience can lead to insanity.