Guilt

Guilt has played a major role in both everyday life and in Macbeth. In recent news, Professional Baseball Trainer Brian McNamee’s guilt caught up with him. He is a trainer to many of the major stars of Major League Baseball. He encouraged them to use steroids in order to improve their games. The guilt from his wrong doings has lived within him for years. It has finally caught up with him. After all those years, he finally admitted to what he did. He started to share which players he encouraged to take steroids. These players are being investigated.
Guilt has also affected my life. A couple of years ago, I was in a quarrel with my brother and I slammed my door. The door slammed so hard that the very expensive vase that sits in our living room, directly below my bedroom, shattered into a million pieces. I felt so bad that I spent the next three weeks with a tube of glue and a magnifying glass putting it back together. After I assembled most of the pieces, I realized that no matter how hard I tried, I would never be able to get it back to the way it was, but it was more the principal of fixing what I had broken; if I had not attempted to fix it, it would have haunted me for the rest of my life.
In
Macbeth, King Duncan was killed of greed; however, Macbeth forced himself to kill his best friend, Banquo, because he figured Banquo knew too much and would kill him for doing so. After he sets Banquo to his death, he feels so guilty that he sees hallucinations of him sitting in his seat at the dinner table. He sees Banquo’s ghost walk up to him. He thinks that Banquo’s ghost will try and kill him. This entire hallucination is solely based on his guilt.

Lady Macbeth has just been killed. We are not told how or why, but she is dead. We are to assume that she has committed suicide. If this is the case, she felt guilty for transforming her husband into a monster.