Guilt

• Guilt has an inescapable nature and the only way to escape its horrors is to ask for help from God to clear your sins.
• Shakespeare presents Guilt as a dangerous emotion that can lead to the destruction of mankind.
• '' Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? '' - Act 2 Scene 2


  Hyperbole - emphasises the heaviness of his sin and inability to rid himself from guilt.

  Rhetorical question represents the magnitude of what he has done

  Verb signals he wants to be resolved from his guilt
• '' Out, damned spot; out, I say. '' - Act 5 Scene 1


  AO3; Witches ' devil mark '

  '' Spot '' - guilt will always follow her no matter how hard she tries

  '' Out '' - Verb connotes her being powerful

  Speaks in prose contrasting with her iambic pentameter or blank verse
• '' All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand ''- Act 5 Scene 1


  '' Perfume '' connotes femininity which can show her mental instability in returning back to femininity.

  Ironic and painful reversal of her earlier claim( Act 2 Scene 2)

  Hyperbole emphasises the severity of her crime especially in the Jacobean era

  '' Little '' emphasises how she is no longer like her older self
• '' I could not say Amen '' Act 2 Scene 2


  Religious imagery implies rejection from God.

  Macbeth is presented as evil after going against the chain of being.

  He is aware of his crime and guilt has taken over his consciousness

  The stichomythia crafts on the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia showing the Macbeths' state of mind.
• '' My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white '' - Act 2 Scene 2


  Possessive pronoun draws how different LM is from Macbeth

  '' Your '' highlights they have a shared responsibility

  '' Shame '' LM is emasculating her husband again

  '' White '' connotes purity and cowardice which both undermine masculinity and power which is valued strongly by LM