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Isolation in Macbeth       Isolation is a state of being separation between persons or group, or a feeling being alone. There are various factors that contribute to someone feeling alone and isolated. An example of this would be when celebrities go into deep depression because they feel isolated from the whole world. They have in all the material things they could ever want, but the one thing they want the most, they do not have. , which is happiness, which comes from satisfaction within oneself and being satisfied with what one has through in ones life. Feeling isolated does not necessarily mean a person is bad. Evidence in Shakespeare play Macbeth , demonstrates this quite clearly that MacBeths isolation comes from guilt , over-ambition and greed.   Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have both shown guilt, but at diverse stages in the play. Isolating guilty feelings only begins to isolate them from the world well-nigh them. Macbeth is the first to feel guilt at the begging of the play, but towards the eat up he has nothing but isolation. Lady Macbeth has both isolation and guilt. In act III , scene two , lines 6 to 9, Lady Macbeth says, Noughts had alls spent, where our commit is got without content. Tis safer to be that which we destroy. She is describing how the murder of Duncan has do them lose everything but has made them gain nothing. Her guilt has gotten the best of her by act IV, when all she has on her mind is guilt. When Lady Macbeth says in act V. scene two, line 43 to 44, Heres the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this teensy-weensy hand. She knows the murder is irrevocable, and nothing can be done to wipe off the deed from her mind.   Over challenging feelings pave the way to isolation. When MacBeth becomes over ambitious about something. he begins to get absorbed into the ambition until eventually the difference of the world does not matter anymore. It seemed as thoug h Lady Macbeth precious the throne for her husband , more than he wanted it for himself. She persuades him until he in conclusion gives in, as shown in act II, line 54 when Lady Macbeth says, When you durst do it, then you were a man.