Examples Of Psychoanalysis In Macbeth

When Macbeth becomes King the evil side of his nature takes over completely. He becomes a butcher and tyrant without any feeling of remorse. Before, he had to be persuaded by his wife to kill. Now, once a King, he doesn’t even bother to tell her of his plans, like the murder of Banquo. He doesn’t need his wife’s support anymore; he has the power and therefore now controls the relationship. The relationship cools down. Lady Macbeth doesn’t have the same effect over Macbeth as before. She is left over. In Act V we see clearly what happened to Lady Macbeth. She is now the person who broods about the dreadful things they have done, “A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!” (Doctor, V, i, 8-10). She is frightened of the dark; “She has light by her continually.” (Gentlewoman, V, i, 21-22). She walks in her sleep and washes her hands all the time to get rid of the blood, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

MacBeth is influenced by his wife to kill Duncan, wasn’t so much of her influencing him it was more of her challenging his manhood. With him being king in a war he had to uphold his reputation for being “tough”, which means that he did not want the enemy to think of him and lesser of a man than he really was. If you can’t look up to someone who’s king, masculine, and a war hero who else are you supposed to look up to. In my view I think this was Macbeth’s softspot, he always wanted to seem like a competitor he always wanted to be the victor. MacBeth had a problem with leaving things alone he could have not been dethroned, had he just killed Dunkin, and Macduff. He killed Banquo because the people viewed him as a well respected and royal man, and in Macbeth’s eyes this was a potential threat that had to be dealt with.

At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth was “in control” of Macbeth. He listened to her and done everything Lady Macbeth told him to do to prove of himself to her. Although Macbeth was then the King of Scotland, he was not always the king. The way he actually became king was because of Lady Macbeth. She came up with an evil plan to murder the original king was named Duncan. Macbeth was against this plan at first: “We will not proceed no further in this business” (1.7.31). Then, after Lady Macbeth used her controlling ways, he changed his mind. Lady Macbeth questioned Macbeth’s manhood (1.7.35-44). Macbeth felt as

As ambition starts to take over Macbeth, Lady Macbeth begins to lose power and is not included in the plans to kill Banquo. “Be innocent of knowledge dearest chuck” (III. ii. 47). Lady Macbeth begins to lose her control of Macbeth; she has no more power nor say in what should be done. This lack of power opens a spot for vulnerability by taking away the one thing that makes her feel useful. Macbeth then begins to share a little of his plan of Banquo’s murder without telling her exactly what he’s doing.“Thou marvel’st at my words: but hold thee still./ Things bad begun make strong themselves ill” (III.ii. 56-57). Lady Macbeth is shocked at the words of her husband, as he elusively shows her a glimpse of his plan.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

The conformity to gender roles that Macbeth and Lady follow leads to the destruction of their relationship. At the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is more masculine than Macbeth and holds the power in their relationship. Lady Macbeth is aware that she is the assertive one in their relationship and uses that to manipulate Macbeth. In act 1, scene 7, Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s masculinity saying, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; / And, to be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man.”(54-56) in saying this, she is using Macbeth’s fragile masculinity against him because she knows Macbeth will prove his masculinity by killing Duncan. After they succeed and get away with the murder, Macbeth becomes more assertive and decisive. Macbeth begins to hide things from Lady Macbeth, like his plan to kill Banquo, this causes a strain on their relationship. In act 3, scene 2, lines 50 and 51, Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth, “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, / Till thou applaud the deed.” about his plan to kill Banquo because he doesn’t want her involved. This furthers the strain in their relationship because Macbeth thinks he, a man, should handle these kinds of things where Lady Macbeth, a woman, should not concern herself with such problems. Furthermore, by excluding Lady Macbeth he has pushed a wedge between them by keeping secrets from her, losing her trust and leading to the downfall of their relationship. Closer to the end of the play, Macbeth assumes his role as a hypermasculine man and becomes violent, killing any possible threat to him. In becoming king, Macbeth becomes obsessed with having power because of the lack of control he had in his relationship with his wife. To Macbeth Macduff appeared as a threat,

This is kind of expected from him though because he pushes her away throughout the play. He does his own murderous deeds, and doesn’t ask for her input. After the murder of Duncan it was like Lady Macbeth was a mother bird kicking her babies out of the nest so they could fly. She urged Macbeth to kill Duncan to get the crown from Duncan, and this one little murder opened up a whole new world for Macbeth. He even says,”I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.”(3.4) In this quote he is saying that is already so deep in blood and murders, that he might as well keep going rather than trying to turn himself around and become an honest man again. All of these things put together really show us how much Macbeth changed throughout the play, and how much his attitude toward his wife changed. He went from being loyal and dependent on her to not even caring that she died and ruthless. Macbeth really was an evil man, but he was the evil man his wife

In the Shakespearean play, Macbeth, the manipulation by three witches take a toll on a local thane by the name of Macbeth. They have such an effect on him, he goes as far to kill the King of Forres, Scotland and becomes King. However, the memory and guilt of his deeds sends the now-King, Macbeth into a spiral of insanity into his demise. Macbeth displays positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms of the schizophrenic disease which is caused by the oppressive powers of the witches, Lady Macbeth, and the actions he committed.

An expert would probably be a more plausible place to have no doubt about if this disease could possibly be canon or not. “I believe that Macbeth suffers from schizophrenia, one of the most damaging of all mental disorders.” Not only did he just confirm he agrees with this illness, but goes on to say that patients lose touch with reality, hear, see, and feel things that aren’t there. Similar to Macbeth throughout the place, where he tries to grab a dagger in act 2, scene 1 or hearing voices in act 2, scene 2. This actually supports his statement and he even states that Macbeth’s mental disorder made the mid story Macbeth, a ruthless killer in order to keep his throne.

Throughout Act 1, Macbeth is shown to possess qualities of a person that suffers from several mental illnesses. One mental illness that Macbeth is shown to have is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is when a person is exposed to a trauma, such a death, which affects the person by making them feel on edge or nervous even though they are completely safe. Macbeth is shown to be a ruthless soldier on the battlefield, he already claims the title of Thane of Glamis for his “brave”(1.2.18) work and is later on given the title Thane of Cawdor for successful defeating the Norwegian Army. However all the killing done by Macbeth effects his decision making.

The play, Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare in the year 1606. At this time, mental illnesses were not diagnosed or treated. People spent their whole lives with a mental illness and did not know it. At the time that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, he probably did not realize that he was writing the main character, Macbeth, as a person with a mental illness. Macbeth showed the most symptoms to be diagnosed with a person with schizophrenia.

As the play continues, in the acts three and four the gender roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth make a big switch when Macbeth is planning on the killing of Banquo. Macbeth beings to act more masculine before this murder and in a sense leaves his lady out of what is going on this time, instead of her taking charge like before, Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night's black agents to their preys do rouse Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. So, prithee, go with me. (3.2, ).” As of now, Macbeth is portraying the actions of what society believes a man should act like. He is now telling her that he has a plan to kill Banquo but he is not going to tell her the details, he wants her not to worry because he believes he has everything under control. Macbeth is trying to be what it takes to be a man but when a person is power hungry they always seem to fail.

Among all those who influenced him, Lady Macbeth was the only one to support him from by his side, killing all doubts of her husband that would prevent their success and potentially prevent Macbeth’s downfall. Before Duncan is killed, Macbeth was doubtful about his capabilities to murder someone he looks up to, proclaiming “We will proceed no further in this business:/… [These honours should] be worn now in their newest gloss,/ Not cast aside so soon” (1.7.33-37), he was not at all ready to undergo the plan. Shortly afterward, Lady Macbeth insults his manhood and successfully convinces Macbeth to forget his doubts. If Lady Macbeth was not present in the situation, Macbeth would have been left to become a nervous wreck, hurting his chances of safely getting through their plan and preventing his downfall from continuing. However, Lady Macbeth’s support comes in more forms than disparaging insults. During the banquet for Macbeth’s crowning, Macbeth worries about Banquo’s suspicions, feeling

Macbeth's mental instability is a creation of his actions. The effects and cause of his mental state is in direct variation to the crimes he commits, as well as Lady Macbeth's mental state. This mental illness, otherwise know as PTSD, fits well with Macbeth and his actions

After returning home from the battlefield, Macbeth consciously ponders murdering his king. However, his loyalty to the crown overtakes his hidden desire, and he resolves: “If chance will have me king, why, chance / may crown me / Without my stir (1.3) Macbeth then informs Lady Macbeth that he is not will to commit regicide. Upon hearing that Macbeth has disregarded his “black and deep desires,” Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to go through with the deed: