Guilt, innocence, Paranoia

• Guilt and innocence 


  > Pervasive theme throughout the play Macbeth especially after Duncan's death

  > Macbeth's and Lady M's conscience haunts them demonstrating conflict between their desire for power and their innate sense of morality

  "All of Arabias perfumes cannot sweeten these little hands"

  " Out, dammed spot! Out, I say!"

  *Lady M's untimely death*
• Hallucination and supernatural elements 


  > Further amplified by supernatural elements present

  > Hallucinations of blood-stained hands and ghostly apparitions

  > signifies psychological torment and descent into madness

  > Supernatural manifestations serve as manifestation of their guilt and contribute to the atmosphere of unease and foreboding

  "Out, dammed spot! Out, I say!"

  "IS this a dagger I see before me"
• The loss of innocence 


  > Macbeth undergoes a profound loss of innocence

  > Once a noble and honourable warrior

  "Brave Macbeth!" "Valour's minion"

  > Now a tyrant

  *ordering to kill Macduff and his family*

  "O, full of scorns in my mind"

  "She should have died hereafter"

  > Lady Macbeth abandoning moral compass and descending into madness to her suicide

  "Unsex me here"

  >Loss of innocence resulted by unchecked ambition and moral corruption