We as humans experience a different amount of emotions throughout our lives. However, some emotions can have much more power and control over mental processes and being in general. Especially if a deplorable action has been done, the power of guilt can and will haunt the mind of the guilty party. It is indeed possible that one's internal struggle with guilt could be the cause of one's demise; an intangible object that completely changes who you are? The concept of guilt and conscience is evident in Macbeth, where the main character must live out the rest of his days in dishonorable glory after killing a king and seizing power. In Shakespeare's tragedy entitled Macbeth, the life of the main character, Macbeth, is taken over in an internal struggle due to guilt and the consciousness of bloody hands; where he sees a dagger in his soliloquy, hallucinates Banquo's ghost, and imagines voices. Banquo and his son Fleance are walking through the halls of Macbeth's castle where they suddenly meet. Banquo, disconcerted that Macbeth is still awake late at night, tells Macbeth that the king is sleeping and that he has dreamed of the "three strange sisters". Macbeth, pretending to be forgetful, says that he has forgotten about the three witches and that they would discuss it later; Banquo and Fleance leave and Macbeth begins to hallucinate. Macbeth imagines the dagger in front of him floating in the air, wondering whether it is real or a figment of his imagination. His vision of the dagger is described through: “Is it a dagger that I see before me, with the hilt towards my hand? Come, let me hold you tight. I don't have you, yet I still see you. Are you not you, fatal vision, sensitive to feeling as well as to sight? Or are you nothing but a dagger... middle of paper... The assassins appear at the door to inform Macbeth that, although Banquo has been killed, Fleance has escaped. Returning to his seat, he sees an apparition sitting in his seat. He was the ghost of Banquo and was invisible to everyone except Macbeth. Macbeth begins to panic at the horror of the sight, eventually prompting Lady Macbeth to finish dinner and send the guests away. The scene is best described through: “Which one of you did this? ...Please look there. Here, look! [To the ghost] Here, what say you?" (Shakespeare 103). It is clear that Macbeth's sanity is slowly languishing when he sees a manifestation of Banquo's Ghost, an indication of his deep guilt over Duncan's murder and time of Banquo. Macbeth practically exposes himself for Banquo's murder, which is seen through “You cannot say it was I. Never wave your bloody locks at me” (Shakespeare 103).