Theme Of Trust And Guilt In Macbeth

Committing a crime always comes with a price. Whether that is the tangible physicality of the consequences, or that of a mental one, it takes a toll on a person. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth conveys such an example in a way that shows how internal struggles can alter a person greatly, and cause them to become someone they one may have never thought they would have become. The couple Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are differently involved in the murders, and they are significant because each death reveals or changes their mindset, trust, and guilt in each character. Through their differences in involvement, the relationship between the two alters, as Duncan, Banquo, Macduff are murdered, along with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth themselves.
Killing someone is no easy feat, and Macbeth had the mentality and mindset to murder Duncan and Banquo, and ultimately himself, but Lady Macbeth’s mindset was weaker. In the death of Duncan, Macbeth was the one who murdered him. However, it was not as simple as that. The reason Macbeth wanted to kill Duncan was for him to become king. …show more content…
Through their mindsets, trust, and guilt, their differences and similarities show how each person’s death and the relationship spiraling into chaos was inevitable. The mindset for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to begin with was already doomed to begin with. The trust between the two was while at first sturdy, fell apart as Macbeth began to make his own decisions, and kept secrets from his wife. With all of that happening, the overlying guilt blanketed each character with a layer of torture, which consumed Lady Macbeth so much, that she ended her own life. With that, Macbeth is a play with many tragedies, deaths, guilt, and caused the deadly duo to make decisions that would lead to their very own deaths. Just like committing a crime, there will always be some form of karma that will bite