Who suffers more from a guilty conscious lady Macbeth or Macbeth?

Answer 1

In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth bother suffer greatly from a guilty conscious. It is however, your opinion who suffered "more". Macbeth after killing King Duncan, was distraught. So distraught that when Lady Macbeth had realized that he had made a mistake in the murder, he cared not to correct it. She showed create courage and strength in an unwomanly fashion, (also earlier in the play she was asked to be "unsexed." as to get rid of her womanly qualites so she could face the tasks at hand, like a man would.) and she corrected, Macbeth's mistakes by placing the daggers which he had forgot to place on the drugged guards, he was in no state to frame the guards, because he was jumpity at every sound and noise, scared and nervous... which shows great deterioration from his original character. Macbeth showed great valour and bravery in battle at the beginning of the play, where after the murder he was as I said Earlier Distraught. Macbeth tries to convince Lady Macbeth of all the reasons he should not kill King Duncan, these reasons include, King Duncan giving him the title of Thane of Cawdor, and also giving Lady Macbeth a dimond. So these would be very good reasons for Macbeth to feel very guilty after murdering King Duncan. Lady Macbeth however, was the opposite to Macbeth. She showed no weakness til time passed and until she felt nightmares compress her sleep, until she was upset with her and her husbands deciscion. Lady Macbeth was originaly strong, and then she after Macbeth sent murders to kill Banquo, she began to all apart. Nihgtmares flooded her sleep, she would sleep walk, she would wash her hands constantly, always talking about blood on her hands in her sleep, saying " who knew there was so muchg blood in him." refering to King Duncan. She also had to sleep with a candle because she grew to be scared of the dark, eventually this all lead to her demise. She kills herself. And part of me would want to think that she must have felt greif for turning Macbeth into a lustful, ambiotious monster, who only grew worse as time continued. It is therefor my opinion that Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth Suffered Equally from a guilty conscious.