general

• ‘is this a dagger i see before me?’


  manifestation of guilt already? - hallucination and psychological spiral 

  ‘come let me clutch thee’ embraces madness
• ‘macbeth doth murder sleep’

  sleep is the gift of the righteous, by killing duncan he is going against gods absolute power, divine right of kings and great chain of being- to audience, political message, must keep the king? warning to nobles from gunpowder plot 1605
• ‘will all great neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?’


  reference to a roman god after going against the divine right of kings- not christian god, guilt will force you to reject god, eternity in hell!!
• ‘thoust cant say i did it: never shake thy gory locks at me!’


  banquo comes to haunt him, not duncan, more personal to macbeth as he murdered someone so close to him, greater guilt
• ‘it will have blood: they say blood will have blood’

  macbeth disregards his emotions as it makes it easier for him to continue killing and accept the delusion its not him as blood will want more bloodshed, as if it possessed him- if he listened to feelings of guilt, the descent into madness would stop. 
• ‘you lack the seasons of all nature’s kindness, sleep’


  LM, juxtaposes herself saying macbeth is ‘too full of the milk of human kindness’ as guilt has destroyed him psychologically, desensitised and numb, however LM interestingly cannot sleep peacefully,
• ‘Out damned spot! Out I say!’


  LM cannot get rid of blood, she cannot sleep and macbeth has murdered his wife’s sleep, role reversal? LM was taking charge, completely had agency and has succumbed to her guilt from the ambition of her own and her husband’s. ‘damned’ going to hell? Go against you conscious on earth and your soul will permanently be punished in hell