In Macbeth we see the transformation the characters experience and how the mind is more vulnerable than the body in Shakespeare’s theory of man’s psychological nature. Macbeth’s character changes dramatically and his personality shows many signs of a serial killer and psychopath. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a perfect thane, strong and willing to suffer physically, to the death, for his King. After the first battle in Act I, Macbeth suffers a psychological when the witches, present him with the idea of becoming king. It was then that his mind then begins to race, with the killer instinct he contains.
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Lady Macbeth seems to have OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, as she is obsessed with the fact of her husband becoming kind of Scotland. She acts impulsively and brings idea to Macbeth without fully thinking out the consequences but it is the psychological disorder of OCD that fogs her mind in seeing the moral aspects of the situation. Although, along with psychology being a huge part in changing Lady Macbeth’s mind, her immediate thoughts may make her appear as thoroughly irreligiously cold and ambitious, but this is not so. To prepare for her evil deeds, she calls on evil spirits to "stop up th' access and passage to remorse" (Shakespeare) in order to be relentless. Otherwise her conscience would not allow her to act. So with no access to remorse until later it reveals why Lady Macbeth is able to convince her husband and plan things so intensely. However, when all the deeds are done and the access to remorse opens again Lady Macbeth disappears into the margins of the play and becomes the weak, and enfeebled figure she herself would probably despise. When she learns that the king's dead body has been found, she faints and must be taken away from the room. In Act V, Lady Macbeth reduced to a figure, who sleepwalks, trying to wash imaginary blood from her hands, and talks of murder in her sleep. Anyone could easily read this as a kind of psychological breakdown. Lady Macbeth is so consumed by guilt for her evil acts and ideas that she eventually loses her mind entirely. But we could also say that her transformation from a powerful masculine figure into a weak woman and this reestablishes the power in gender that Macbeth has as he continues with his journey without her and makes the decisions altogether on his
Psychology is a theme that Shakespeare was very familiar with during his years of writing and he would express his knowledge with …show more content…
Lady Macbeth seems to have OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, as she is obsessed with the fact of her husband becoming kind of Scotland. She acts impulsively and brings idea to Macbeth without fully thinking out the consequences but it is the psychological disorder of OCD that fogs her mind in seeing the moral aspects of the situation. Although, along with psychology being a huge part in changing Lady Macbeth’s mind, her immediate thoughts may make her appear as thoroughly irreligiously cold and ambitious, but this is not so. To prepare for her evil deeds, she calls on evil spirits to "stop up th' access and passage to remorse" (Shakespeare) in order to be relentless. Otherwise her conscience would not allow her to act. So with no access to remorse until later it reveals why Lady Macbeth is able to convince her husband and plan things so intensely. However, when all the deeds are done and the access to remorse opens again Lady Macbeth disappears into the margins of the play and becomes the weak, and enfeebled figure she herself would probably despise. When she learns that the king's dead body has been found, she faints and must be taken away from the room. In Act V, Lady Macbeth reduced to a figure, who sleepwalks, trying to wash imaginary blood from her hands, and talks of murder in her sleep. Anyone could easily read this as a kind of psychological breakdown. Lady Macbeth is so consumed by guilt for her evil acts and ideas that she eventually loses her mind entirely. But we could also say that her transformation from a powerful masculine figure into a weak woman and this reestablishes the power in gender that Macbeth has as he continues with his journey without her and makes the decisions altogether on his