guilt(macbeth)

Question 1

guilt is so powerful that he loses his sense of reality and cannot be sure whether he is having a vision or not.

Answer 1

hy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes (3.4)

Question 2

implying the guilt cannot be washed away

Answer 2

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood. Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather.

Question 3

No matter how much she repents, the violence and death cannot be undone.

Answer 3

To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come,
come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done
cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed. (5.1)

Question 4

the smell of guilt is so strong

Answer 4

all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this hand’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 5

the guilt is keeping him awake

Answer 5

‘sleep no more’

Question 6

trying to shift the blame

Answer 6

‘thou cannot say I did it