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We see guilt working in opposite directions within the play. Lady Macbeth seems unconcerned with the wider import of th assasination until after the event, when the blood which has been spilt weighs heavily upon her conscience. Macbeth, by contrast, worries most before the death of Duncan - after he has attained the throne, he grows in evil andseems to set his fearful conscience aside:
act one - scene five Lady Macbeth calls spirits to quell her conscience
act one - scene seven Macbeth acknowledges natural, spiritual justice
act two - scene two Macbeth tells his reassuring wife of his guilty terrors
act two - scene two Macbeth cannot look on his bloody deeds
act two - scene two Lady Macbeth makes the grooms appear guilty
act three - scene two Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth to to forget his deeds
act three - scene two Macbeth describes his guilty dreams
act three- scene four Macbeth frenziedly attempts to deny his guilt to the ghost
act five- scene one Lady Macbeth cannot wash the imagined blood away
act five- scene five Macbeth has hardened his heart to fear
act five- scene eight Macbeth's conscience pricks him about Macduff's family

     
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