Shakespeares Macbeth - Macbeths Guilt :: GCSE English Literature Coursework

Macbeths Implacable fault The Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth underscores the important and usually unforeseen effect of sin, that of crime. The guilt is so deep that brothel keeper Macbeth is pushed to suicide, and Macbeth fares only slightly better. Blanche Coles states in Shakespeares quartette Giants that, regarding guilt in the play Briefly stated, and with elaborations to follow, Macbeth is the story of a kindly, adept man who was incited and goaded, by the woman he deeply loved, into committing a writ of execution and then, beca handling of his sensitive nature, was unable to bear the heavy burden of guilt that desc barricadeed upon him as a result of that murder. (37) In Memoranda Remarks on the Character of chick Macbeth, Sarah Siddons mentions the guilt and ambition of Lady Macbeth and their effect Re I have give suck (1.7.54ff.) Even here, horrific as she is, she shews herself made by ambition, barely non by nature, a perfectly savage creature. The very use of such a tender allusion in the midst of her dreadful language, persuades unmatchable unequivocally that she has really felt the maternal yearnings of a mother towards her babe, and that she considered this march the most enormous that ever required the strength of human nerves for its perpetration. Her language to Macbeth is the most potently eloquent that guilt could use. (56) In his book, On the Design of Shakespearean Tragedy, H. S. Wilson comments regarding the guilt of the protagonist It is a subtler thing which constitutes the political boss fascination that the play exercises upon us - this fear Macbeth feels, a fear not fully defined, for him or for us, a shoc might anxiety that is a wizard of guilt without becoming (recognizably, at least) a sense of sin. It is not a sense of sin because he refuses to recognize such a course of study and, in his stubbornness, his savage defiance, it drives him on to more and more terrible acts. (74) Clark and Wright in their Intro duction to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare explain how guilt impacts Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is of a finer and more delicate nature. Having fixed her eye upon the end - the attainment for her husband of Duncans crown - she accepts the inevitable means she nerves herself for the terrible nights work by artificial stimulants yet she cannot strike the sleeping king who resembles her father.