The Greater Sin in Macbeth Everyone is guided by a guilty conscience in our life. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth feel guilty at different times and in different ways. Macbeth feels more guilty than Lady Macbeth after Duncan's murder. During the banquet, Mecbeth is very upset and nervous after seeing the ghost, but Lady Macbeth is making an excuse for her husband's fear and shows no guilt. At the end of the play the opposite is true: Lady Mecbeth feels more guilty than Mecbeth. the king. He finds it impossible to pray after Duncan's two sons wake from a nightmare and fall back asleep: "I needed the blessing more, and 'Amen' / Stuck in my throat." (II;ii;32-3) On the other hand Lady Macbeth tells him to forget the murder because if they continue to think about the crime, they will both go mad: Consider it not so deeply.…/These actions are not to be thought of this way ; therefore, it will drive us crazy. (II; ii; 30-35) Since Lady Macbeth kills herself at the end of the play, these lines also foreshadow her future. In scene 4 of Act III, Macbeth will go mad after seeing The Ghost of Banquo. He got so scared when he saw the ghost walking into the palace and sitting in his place: "you can't say it was me: never wave your bloody curls at me." This quote shows how frightened he is, and Lady Macbeth is making an excuse to hide her husband's fear: Sit, ye worthy friends: my lord is often thus, and hath been so from his youth: I pray you, sit still; the attack is temporary, if you think about it he will be fine again. If you observe him much, you will offend him and extend his passion; feed it and do not consider it. Are you a man? This quote explains to the guest why Macbeth acted the way he did and how Lady Macbeth hides her fear of her husband's ghost. In Act V scene 1, 50: Lady Macbeth is so shocked that they have committed such a horrible crime and cannot erase it. And that's not what he felt at the beginning of the story, he says: