Consequences Of Guilt In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'

Everything has its own consequences, Macbeth should if never killed anyone and now he has to deal with all the guilt of the people he killed. Macbeth’s ambition is revealed in the beginning when he is trying to figure out a plan to kill the King of Scotland and at one point had a change of mind but his wife Lady Macbeth convinced him that if he did not kill the king to become king himself he will be portrayed as a coward. The reader also notices how Macbeth turns to a guilty person and starts to see Banquo’s ghost. As Ross implies, the title of Cawdor is not the only reward Macbeth will receive - additional honors yet unspecified, will follow. With the weird sisters' prophecy ringing in his ears, Macbeth cannot help but notice Ross use of term, "earnest" as a sign from destiny that his new title of Cawdor is merely a down payment for that "great honour". Later in the story, Macbeth's downfall …show more content…
"He declares if we teach bloody instruction which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. Then our actions call forth similar actions from others." Wracked by guilt while seeking to a string of atrocities that leads to his eventual death on the field of battle. The irony is that, despite all its visceral heightening of the atrocities, this fails and creates an atmosphere of evil. In Act 1, scene 4, Macbeth says; "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap For in my way it lies. Stars, are hide your flies; Let not the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." Macbeth describes his ambition as being a "black and deep desire," which makes it sound wrong because who would talk about how bad his desires are or how bad he wants something so deep. Macbeth turns into someone that he was not when the play started because of his wife and his own selfish reasons to want to be