Macbeth guilt context

• Macbeth realises murdering the king would break the great chain of being
• Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth experience guilt throughout the play because of their actions
• Shakespeare uses the play as an example of how immoral actions lead to a guilty conscience
• Lady Macbeth suppresses her guilt over bringing about the murder of Duncan
• Lady Macbeth and Macbeth both sin and defy the natural order
• shakespeare emphasises that guilt is permanent ands destructive
• macbeths guilt over the murdere of king Duncan and his friend banquet results in him expiring powerful and unsettling hallucinations