Lady Macbeth is a character who self destructed on the road of her metaphorical success. She strived for her desires with a one-route journey, forgetting to stop at a gas station. At the beginning she had no second thoughts, complete droopiness, only forces to pick up the scrapes of her very much ambitious yet soft-minded husband, Macbeth. She reached to the point where she sacrificed her feminism only to reach her outrageous intentions. Without considering her feminine aspect plays a big part in keeping her desires and ambitions. Personally, I believe Lady Macbeth suffered several mental illnesses. The following are quotes which lead to my belief of so.
Bring forth men-children only!
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
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One would be hysterical somnambulism; another would be obsessive-compulsive disorder. Somnambulism is the unique state of getting up from sleep through a gained mechanism. Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking scene is a perfect example for this illness. From her hysterical thinking process, her behavior was inevitable. Lady Macbeth was not a victim of destiny by a victim effected by a tragic flaw; a mental illness. Lady Macbeth’s ambitions were because of her desires to obtain more, once she received her aims she would seek more. Her desires are imaginary. She’s running after a speeding car. Her sleepwalking was caused of her suppressed ideas and emotions. She appeared emotionless the entire play and collapsed at the end. Because the more you suppress an erupting volcano, the more it explodes. Her obsessive disorder showed later on when she related the murders to the blood on her hands. She transferred an unpleasant repressed memory to a relative action, which had a strong emotional significance. She had pressures of guilt of draining many people’s blood, she referred this to her contaminated hands. Her hands were where she chose to project her …show more content…
"I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave," This quote also shows that she did not suppress her emotions and memories for so long. The guilt is there, she was aware. It is almost as if lady Macbeth used the splitting defense mechanism, in her conscious awareness she repressed her sorrow and remorse. In her sleep, where she is drowned into her subconscious, she cannot hide from her memories no more. In her waking state she contains herself, she is brave. In her sleep she expresses, and is a coward. While she is conscious the sight of blood in indifferent to her, while she is asleep, it chokes her. While she is conscious, she advises her husband with at most positive emotionless cruelty, in her subconscious she shows her pity and remorse. If I do believe that lady Macbeth still has her female aspect, then it is in her sleeping state, not in her waking state. It is in her waking state that she has chosen to strip herself of emotions. Lady Macbeth’s brain chose to take several defense mechanisms: Projection, meaning one can only identify their own negative traits when seen in other. Splitting, the ability of viewing a memory as a third person, Denial: meaning she denied a specific memory of though. Repression: overpowering of memories as well as apathy which is lack of interests, enthusiasm or
Bring forth men-children only!
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males …show more content…
One would be hysterical somnambulism; another would be obsessive-compulsive disorder. Somnambulism is the unique state of getting up from sleep through a gained mechanism. Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking scene is a perfect example for this illness. From her hysterical thinking process, her behavior was inevitable. Lady Macbeth was not a victim of destiny by a victim effected by a tragic flaw; a mental illness. Lady Macbeth’s ambitions were because of her desires to obtain more, once she received her aims she would seek more. Her desires are imaginary. She’s running after a speeding car. Her sleepwalking was caused of her suppressed ideas and emotions. She appeared emotionless the entire play and collapsed at the end. Because the more you suppress an erupting volcano, the more it explodes. Her obsessive disorder showed later on when she related the murders to the blood on her hands. She transferred an unpleasant repressed memory to a relative action, which had a strong emotional significance. She had pressures of guilt of draining many people’s blood, she referred this to her contaminated hands. Her hands were where she chose to project her …show more content…
"I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he cannot come out of his grave," This quote also shows that she did not suppress her emotions and memories for so long. The guilt is there, she was aware. It is almost as if lady Macbeth used the splitting defense mechanism, in her conscious awareness she repressed her sorrow and remorse. In her sleep, where she is drowned into her subconscious, she cannot hide from her memories no more. In her waking state she contains herself, she is brave. In her sleep she expresses, and is a coward. While she is conscious the sight of blood in indifferent to her, while she is asleep, it chokes her. While she is conscious, she advises her husband with at most positive emotionless cruelty, in her subconscious she shows her pity and remorse. If I do believe that lady Macbeth still has her female aspect, then it is in her sleeping state, not in her waking state. It is in her waking state that she has chosen to strip herself of emotions. Lady Macbeth’s brain chose to take several defense mechanisms: Projection, meaning one can only identify their own negative traits when seen in other. Splitting, the ability of viewing a memory as a third person, Denial: meaning she denied a specific memory of though. Repression: overpowering of memories as well as apathy which is lack of interests, enthusiasm or