William Shakespeare, the most brilliant psychotherapist who never once treated a patient, described guilt (in Macbeth) as life’s fitful fever. Anyone who has suffered pangs of guilt knows that ...

Macbeth has captured our fears and nightmares for years. The crucial themes of excessive ambition, kingship, guilt and many more can tell an important message that people try to figure out to this ...

Lady Macbeth's madness and death - the isolation and the guilt have driven her mad. Macbeth realises his life no longer has any meaning and calmly faces his own death at the hands of Macduff.

Lady Macbeth never saw the evil of the murder lasting in this way. The blood of Duncan haunts her. She re-runs her own part in the murder to come to terms with her guilt. An important point.

William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth has been performed in translation ... Each includes a bloody weapon, a wife who in her guilt tries ineffectually to clean the blood off her hands, and a ...