Shakespeare's Macbeth Major Theme

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth guilt is a major theme that I found through research. Guilt shows up in the play in many forms blood, mental status of the Macbeth’s, and Lady Macbeth’s role in the play.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth don’t seem so strong in the beginning, and their mental status is obvious. Lady Macbeth is the strongest; Macbeth is timid before the murder of Duncan. Macbeth wants to be king, but he feels like there are other ways of getting what you want besides murder. He is faced with the struggle within Macbeth between his ambition and his sense of right and wrong. In the play it is shown that lady Macbeth is a strong woman. She uses Macbeths manhood against him to give him ambition to kill Duncan (Shakespeare, 43). Right after the murder of Duncan, Macbeth washes his hands, even after the blood is obviously gone from sight he continues to wash his hands from guilt, in his mind the blood is still there (Shakespeare, 59). As the play progresses Lady Macbeth begins sleepw...