Family is defined as any group of people related by blood or marriage. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are a family experiencing unhappiness in a few of its most concentrated forms. The many shapes of unhappiness can be traced back to three main sources of depression: jealousy, fear, and guilt. Macbeth and the Lady's uniqueness arises from the fact that all three of these basic unhappinesses are felt as the result of one event. The Macbeth …showed first 75 words of 728 total…

…showed last 75 words of 728 total…picked up speed, he picked up the irrationalisers of jealousy, greed, fear, and guilt. The final addition to Macbeth's plight was the prophecy of the Weird Sisters who said he would not be harmed by any woman born. The emotions which he was already feeling took hold of this prophecy and used it to warp Macbeth's reality. The lack of the very same fear which drove him to kill Macduff's family, was finally his demise.