Lady Macbeth Guilt Analysis
As the end drew near, Lady Macbeth was no longer able to drive off the guilt, while Macbeth became unreined and free, relying completely on himself. As time goes on, Lady Macbeth’s guilt grows stronger while she is given less to do: “She had no way of escaping from her own thoughts, no way of plunging into such a course of action as might help to keep away the remembrance of the past or to relieve the present” (Munro 33). As her guilt has caught up with her, Lady Macbeth has been driven completely insane. She has literally become sick with guilt. As Munro states “She had obtained the object of her desires, but it was, in the attainment of it, turned into fire and ashes on her lips. The crown was placed on her head, but it weighed upon her
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She has degraded mentally as well. In her insane sleep talking speech, she inadvertently confess to the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff’s family (V.i.40-65). She has also developed an excessive fear of the dark, commanding that “she has light by her continually” (V.i.23-24). It is this physical and mental deprivation that eventually beings an end to Lady Macbeth’s story with her taking her own life. While Lady Macbeth is at her lowest, Macbeth himself has never been higher. He no longer relies on anyone, be it his wife or the witches. Macbeth no longer even seems to love his wife, merely shrugging it off when he is told that she committed suicide, saying she picked a bad time to die; “She should have died hereafter” (V.v.17). When Macbeth decides to take to the field and fight for his throne, he accepts the crimes that he has committed and decides to move on anyways. While fighting the enemy, he seems to change back into the old war hero that he once was, showing unquestionable physical courage (Firkins
She has degraded mentally as well. In her insane sleep talking speech, she inadvertently confess to the murders of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff’s family (V.i.40-65). She has also developed an excessive fear of the dark, commanding that “she has light by her continually” (V.i.23-24). It is this physical and mental deprivation that eventually beings an end to Lady Macbeth’s story with her taking her own life. While Lady Macbeth is at her lowest, Macbeth himself has never been higher. He no longer relies on anyone, be it his wife or the witches. Macbeth no longer even seems to love his wife, merely shrugging it off when he is told that she committed suicide, saying she picked a bad time to die; “She should have died hereafter” (V.v.17). When Macbeth decides to take to the field and fight for his throne, he accepts the crimes that he has committed and decides to move on anyways. While fighting the enemy, he seems to change back into the old war hero that he once was, showing unquestionable physical courage (Firkins