How does Shakespeare present the theme of Guilt in 'Macbeth'. Use Act 5 Scene 1 as a reference in your answer

Throughout Act 5 scene 5, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth's giult through her sleepwalking, particulary using the symbol of blood. The character is seen to repeatedly wash her hands, while saying "Out damned spot!" The use of imperative here lets the audience into LM's desparation to be free of her guilt. This hallucination of the metaphorical 'spot' symbolises the blood of Duncan after to the terrible deed she forced Macbeth to commit. She admittedly notes that "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand". Shakespear's use of hyperbole here to emphesise LM's angiush and heartache after what she's done. She feels as though she will never be clean of the murder of Duncan. This motif of blood also manifests itself earlier in Act 3 scene 4, after Macbeth has Banquo killed. He starts to hallucinate, much like Lady Macbeth, and commands the Ghost to "Never shake thy gory locks at me". Again, an imperative is used for a similar effect and the symbolism of blood expressed in the adjective "gory". Both the forms of guilt are a result of secondary acts of murder. Like LM, Macbeth didn't physically kill Banquo, but ordering someone else to do it is enough to riddle these characters with guilt.
Shakespeare uses the symbol of Hallicination to present the theme of Guilt in Act 5, scene 1. Lady Macbeth is hallucinating a "spot" of blood on her hands, Duncan's blood, and prehaps even the blood of the other characters killed as a result of Macbeth's killing spree, like Banquo. She also seems to hallucinate the night that she manipulated Macbeth into killing Duncan, and she jumps in her conversation from "come come give me your hand" to "put on your nightgown". Her replaying that night in her head signifies that she is constantly reliving it, in a nightmarish cycle. Hallucination is also apparent in Act 3 scene 4, where Macbeth sees the Ghost of Banquo at the banquet. Uses the supernatural is a reuccuring motif in Shakespeare's plays, one of them also being Hamlet with the Ghost of Old Hamlet, and again in the beginning of Macbeth with the witches. In the Jacobean era, the supernatural were thought to be an unnatural evil which people who were God fearing belived. The fact that LM and Macbeth both hallucinate, show the extent of their crimes against God. Treason being the biggest one, as following the Great Chain of Beings, the monarch was right after God in terms of power, and murder of course.