Role Of Fear In Macbeth

he is scared of the thing he has just committed and knows if he thinks about it he will be overrun by negative, dangerous thoughts. Macbeth’s fear completely contrasts his wife who continues to portray that she has no problem with guilt and helps clean up after Macbeth. As the play progresses Macbeth’s guilt and fear will transform his anxious mind into an unhealthy tyrant willing to do anything to keep his position in power. Lady Macbeth’s current guilt free mind takes dominance to cleanse her husband’s ill mind of the cruel act they have planned and done together. While she is alone, anxiously waiting for Macbeth to come back, she sits nervously afraid that he might not be doing it right. As her husband is scared and uneasy she makes it her job to convince him he must forget about what they have done and that it is no big deal. She is the mastermind behind the deed and feels she must clean up after Macbeth’s mistakes by taking the daggers back to the crime scene. “My hands are of your color, but I shame/to wear a heart so white” (2.2.82-83), she knows she is as much involved as he is but she will not let her weakness show, practically calling

From the beginning of act 5 she is not sleeping soundly, she proceeds to sleep walk, revealing her guilt in her uneasy sleep. “Out, dammed spot! Out, I say! One; two: why,/then ‘tis time to do’t” (5.1.32-33), she still sees the blood on her hands from the murder of Duncan and it is haunting her. She is now aware that her husband is the one who killed Banquo and Macduff’s wife and she felt responsible for creating such a monster out of her own husband. This is the last time we hear from Lady Macbeth, since all of this on her mind as well as losing the husband she once had is too much for her to handle, and her guilt took control of her mental health which resulted in her own