Guilt plays a big role in Macbeth. In the beginning of our story when Macbeth kills he is filled with guilt. He believes that he feels guilt only because he is an unexperienced killer. Later he becomes evil and no longer feels guilt when killing. Even the wicked witches call Macbeth wicked. At first, Macbeth doesn't even want to kill Duncan because he feel as if it is wrong. After Duncan dies, and everyone starts talking about it, Macbeth makes a big scene to try and hide his guilt. This fails and Lady Macbeth distracts the nobles to prevent them from finding out the truth. At the banquet after Banquo is killed, Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost and is frightened. The party guest are horrified and shocked by Macbeth's vision. Later, Macbeth decides to go ahead and kill anyone he is suspicious of. In Macbeth, guilt makes people go crazy.
Lady Macbeth is also affected by guilt. Though Lady Macbeth doesn't play a direct part in these killings, she feels guilt about them. In the beginning, Lady Macbeth believed that if you washed off the blood from your hands, you were no longer guilty. She said that even though she put blood on the guards, she was disappointed that her heart was innocent, because she didn't stab Duncan. Overtime guilt builds up in her and she has to release it from her body somehow, so she confesses in her sleep. When the doctor and care keeper hear her talking about the crimes her husband and she have done, Lady Macbeth says that no matter how hard she tries the blood still stains her hands. This blood signifies the guilt she has for her husband's crimes. Throughout the play, guilt affects characters by making them insane. Guilt show the idea through the play that the guilt or blood never goes away.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Weekly Log 5/6- 5/12
Cover Letter
- 5/7 30 min.
- 5/8 30 min.
- 5/9 30 min.
Analyzation of Writing Remix
- 5/6 60 min.
Total: 130 min.
- 5/7 30 min.
- 5/8 30 min.
- 5/9 30 min.
Analyzation of Writing Remix
- 5/6 60 min.
Total: 130 min.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Weekly Log 4/29-5/5
Portfolio-
- Hit and Miss 4/30 - 30 min
- Writing Remix 5/1- 90 min
- Cover Letter 5/2- 30 min
Total= 150 min.
Plan = No Happiness (Macbeth Quotations)
"We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
When Duncan is asleep--" (Lady Macbeth, 43).
This quote show Lady Macbeth trying to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan and blame it on the guards. She tells him that they will not fail, because her plan is brilliant. This quote adds to the scene because it leads to Macbeth killing Duncan, an is the moment when Lady Macbeth fatally convinces him to carry through. She is not afraid to get caught in the crime as Macbeth is. This quote show that Lady Macbeth is more manly than Macbeth which is a reoccuring topic that Lady Macbeth addresses throughout the play. In the next quote, they realize that all this bloodshed hasn't led to happiness. Instead it buries them into a cycle of blood and killing that they cannot escape.
"Naught's had, all spent,
Where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy" (Lady Macbeth, 93).
In this quotation Lady Macbeth is saying that though she is the queen and Macbeth is king, she is not happy. Originally, she thought that if Macbeth was king the would have everything they wanted and their problems would vanish. Instead they got their desire, but that desire didn't bring them happiness. In the last two lines, she says that it is safer to be dead like Duncan than to be held back by Duncan's death. This quote is important because it leads to the idea that Macbeth gets to kill Banquo and Fleance. It represents the concept that knowledge is deadly.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
When Duncan is asleep--" (Lady Macbeth, 43).
This quote show Lady Macbeth trying to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan and blame it on the guards. She tells him that they will not fail, because her plan is brilliant. This quote adds to the scene because it leads to Macbeth killing Duncan, an is the moment when Lady Macbeth fatally convinces him to carry through. She is not afraid to get caught in the crime as Macbeth is. This quote show that Lady Macbeth is more manly than Macbeth which is a reoccuring topic that Lady Macbeth addresses throughout the play. In the next quote, they realize that all this bloodshed hasn't led to happiness. Instead it buries them into a cycle of blood and killing that they cannot escape.
"Naught's had, all spent,
Where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy" (Lady Macbeth, 93).
In this quotation Lady Macbeth is saying that though she is the queen and Macbeth is king, she is not happy. Originally, she thought that if Macbeth was king the would have everything they wanted and their problems would vanish. Instead they got their desire, but that desire didn't bring them happiness. In the last two lines, she says that it is safer to be dead like Duncan than to be held back by Duncan's death. This quote is important because it leads to the idea that Macbeth gets to kill Banquo and Fleance. It represents the concept that knowledge is deadly.
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