How does Macbeth feel about having murdered duncan?

Answer 1

Terrible. He wishes he hadn't done it. "I am afraid to think what I have done", "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?", "Wake Duncan with thy knocking; I wish thou couldst!" are some of the things he says that confirm this.

Answer 2

Macbeth felt guilty after killing Duncan because he says something like no matter how much water he uses to wash the blood off of this hand it will still be there. He regrets what he has done. "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I wish thou couldst"

Answer 3

After killing King Duncan I (d. August 14, 1040) Macbeth (c. 1014 - August 15, 1057) felt that he never would have a good night's sleep and that he had done the unthinkable.

Specifically, all the way until the last minute, Macbeth had tried to talk himself and his Lady (b. c. 1015) out of killing their cousin. Unfortunately, murder appeared to be the only way by which the couple could become King and Queen of Scotland that they so dearly wanted to be. It therefore is not surprising that Macbeth was unhinged by the bloodied corpses and the bloodied crime scene.

Answer 4

At first, she is satisfied with her and her husband's conspiracy plans, because she is determined for Macbeth to become King and will do whatever it takes. But throughout the play her conscience gets to her, she starts sleepwalking and washing her hands of the King's blood that she thinks is still on them. The play ends with her committing suicide because she can not live with what she did.

Answer 5

The mindset of Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] after he killed King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040] was one in upheaveal. He was unhinged and disoriented by the bloodied murder scene, the bloodied daggers, and the bloodied corpses. He had broken all of his obligations as beneficiary, cousin, defender, host, and subject to his benefactor, commander, kinsman, guest and sovereign. Additionally, the two royal guards were supposed to have been passed out from the drugged drinks that they'd been given by Lady Macbeth. They were out of it long enough for Macbeth to kill their King, but not long enough to know that they were being killed too with all of their sins on them. Macbeth fell to pieces over not being able to say 'Amen' to their last minute prayers to save their souls.

Answer 6

He is seriously disturbed by it. Even in the short time after the murder, he finds that he cannot be involved in the external forms of religion (but wherefore could I not pronounce "Amen"?) and hears voices (Macbeth doth murder sleep). His feeling of guilt is deep, and he fears that he cannot ever overcome it (Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?).

He deeply and bitterly regrets what he has done, almost from the moment he has done it. His exit line expresses this: "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst."

Answer 7

Macbeth felt like he had done the unthinkable. He feels like he won't be able to sleep ever again and he can't bear to look at the body of Duncan again.

Answer 8

Macbeth feels somewhat sad at the end of the play for he knows what has happened. He says, "He has almost forgot the taste of fears', when lady Macbeth screamed and died.

Answer 9

Guilty