Macbeth - Themes: Guilt
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Grade 7
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Macbeth - Themes: Guilt
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Analyzing Guilt in Macbeth
If guilt be in our thoughts, then let us find our way / To purge it, or be free of it. Yet, who can say / Whether guilt is more a burden or a mercy? / When I think on what I have done, my conscience / Conjures up images of blood and betrayal. / O, full of scorpions is my mind! / Yet, I can’t escape my own shadow, nor disown / The deeds I committed. My hands are stained, / And every drop of blood seems to whisper / Secrets I dare not face. / To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus—our fears / Are the chains that bind us to our sins. / I hear a voice—‘Sleep no more!’ / Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep— / Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, / The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, / Chief nourisher in life’s feast— / Still, I see the bloodstained dagger, / And hear the echo of my own guilt, haunting me."
1.
Identify two literary techniques used in this passage and explain their effect.
[3 marks]2.
What does Macbeth’s reference to ‘sleep’ symbolize in this passage?
[2 marks]3.
Describe how Shakespeare uses imagery to depict Macbeth's feelings of guilt.
4.
Which phrase indicates Macbeth's internal conflict, and what does it reveal about his psychology?
[2 marks]5.
Analyze the significance of the line ‘Macbeth does murder sleep’.
6.
How does the passage reflect Macbeth’s mental state after the murder?
[2 marks]7.
Identify and explain one metaphor used in the excerpt.
[3 marks]8.
In your own words, summarize how the theme of guilt is conveyed through Macbeth’s language in this passage.
9.
Based on this excerpt, what might be a possible moral or lesson about guilt?
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