Whose guilty conscience grows and whose guilty conscience wanes in Macbeth?
I have read the play, and watched the play too.
2006-11-14 03:21:33 · 3 answers · asked by rcpaden 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
I would say that Lady MacBeth's guilt grows (out out damn spot) and MacBeth's guilt wanes as he believes the withces' predictions protect him from harm (birnham wood and one not of woman born)
2006-11-14 03:38:10 · answer #1 · answered by audairymaid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Macbeth, who of all the human participators in the king's murder is the most guilty, is thrown by the terrors of her conscience into a state of incurable bodily and mental disease; she dies, unlamented even by her husband. Macbeth is still found worthy to die the death of a hero on the field of battle. The noble Macduff is allowed the satisfaction of saving his country by punishing with his own hand the tyrant who had murdered his wife and children. Banquo, by an early death, atones for his ambitious curiosity to know his glorious descendants, as he thereby has roused Macbeth's jealousy; but he preserves his mind pure from the evil suggestions of the witches; his name is blessed in his race, destined to enjoy for a long succession of ages that royal dignity which Macbeth could only hold for his own life.
2006-11-14 11:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by Brite Tiger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Mac instigates everything and in the end she is going mad from a guilty conscience. Mac on the other had starts out with some real doubts and in the end he chooses to believe that its the witches fault he thinks its their guilt.
2006-11-14 11:46:25 · answer #3 · answered by Chillypepers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋