GUILT

What is guilt? When do we feel it? Do we associate our feelings with guilt? In my life I have avoided the feeling of guilt. I use other words, more specific than guilt, but are within the category. Within guilt, there is regret. This feeling is probably the worst in the world. It is that feeling when you just want to turn back time and do things over again. When someone is guilty it may be because they made a wrong decision or they made the right one, but it makes gives them a guilty conscience. In Wildfire, Kris bears too much guilt to continue dating her boyfriend Junior, whose family owns the rival barn to hers adoptive family’s barn. This case shows Kris making a right decision for her barn but a wrong decision for herself. She immediately feels guilty but over time she moves on. In the current season, she and Junior get back together. For Kris, a happy ending comes out of her guilt.
In my life, I have felt guilt many times, although I try to avoid it. In one case, I was going to purchase a horse and decided not to at the last minute. A few months later I found out that he died. I felt guilty for his death because I knew I would have been able to prevent it. Unfortunately, there was not much I could do to relieve myself of this guilt. I had to come to terms with the fact that things happen for a reason and that it is possible that I wouldn’t have been able to prevent his death. I have felt guilty before, but for small fights with my friends or my parents. Feeling guilty for a death is difficult to overcome.
Within the play Macbeth, two of the characters have guilty consciences. Lady Macbeth begins to sleep walk at night and wash her hands. This is symbolic for her washing blood off of her hands after Macbeth killed Duncan. After having this weigh down on her conscience, Lady Macbeth dies suddenly. Macbeth has delusions because he murdered the King and had his friend murdered as well. He has episodes in front of his dinner guests as well. Macbeth’s conscience has not been cleared and at some point his guilt will affect the way that the play ends.