Lady Macbeth Pyshcology Report

Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ is a character who suffers greatly in because of her human weakness, which is her vaulting ambition. This ambition is not for her, but for her husband. This woman, who seemed so in control at the beginning of the okay, only cared for her husband and his success, later becomes so consumed with guilt and remorse that it results in her tragic death. Through the discussion of characterisation and lkey scenes, I shall reveal that Lady Macbeth’s human flaw is  not only a major contributor to the ruthlessness of her husband but creates a huge influence in how the play unfolds.

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the title character Macbeth and his wife are both exceptionally ambitious, often taking rather radical measures to accomplish their goals. While this ruthless drive to power is seemingly prosperous at first, it quickly crumbles to naught as guilt infects their minds with grim consequences to follow. Macbeth transforms from a noble general to a guilt-ridden and despaired murderer, while Lady Macbeth’s usually stoic and masculine persona deteriorates into a pitiful and anxious shell of her former self. The feeling of remorse quickly plagues the two characters and overpowers ambition through manifesting itself through nightmares, ghosts, and paranoia, and ultimately leads to their demise.

Lady Macbeth’s strength of will persists through the murder of King Duncan as it is she who tries to calm Macbeth after committing the crime by declaring confidently that, “a little water clears us of this deed,” (2.2.67). Afterward, however, Lady Macbeth’s strong and ambitious character begins to deteriorate into madness. Her first sign of weakness occurred when she confessed that she could not have killed the king, revealing a natural woman’s feelings, “had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2.13-14). Just as ambition has affected her before more so then Macbeth before the crime, the guilt plagues her now more effectively afterward as she desperately tried to wash away the invisible blood from her sin, “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,” (5.1.48-49). Lady Macbeth’s

Lady Macbeth had a very powerful hold over Macbeth. Just by questioning his valor she could shift Macbeth’s whole thought process and second-guessing of the murder of Duncan (Booth, 24), and he allows it because he cannot bear to disappoint her. His love for her and need for her approval is what ultimately leads him to commit each and every one of his crimes. She is the center of his world and if she does not see a problem in the murders than why should he. This is naïve ignorance caused by a blindness that is induced by love, and that is both heart breaking and tragic.

Lady Macbeth also demonstrates a shady characteristic other than self- gain, when she unintentionally gives herself away in her sleep (V. i. 33, 37-42, 44-47, 53-55, 65-67, 69-72). Though her fear can conceal itself when she’s awake, she can do nothing about it when she is asleep. This shows that Lady Macbeth’s character has started to care more and has begun to feel guilt. Before, she would call Macbeth weak for having emotions, but now she understands how he feels.

On all the quizzes take as lady Macbeth the ones that can be ruled out that she dose no have is a bipolar disorder and PSTD. Th why? because she scored significantly low on the test and in the comic or the movie their is no scene we lady Macbeth has trouble sleeping or bad memories so PSTD seems very unlikely. The reason for her not having bipolar disorder is the you don't see her constantly changing moods, even tho their is one scene were it looks like she might have it, but like i said its only one scene. On the quizzes she scored the highest was the sociopath and the psychopath, these seem like she could have it for example as a psychopath she manipulates people to get her to do what she wants and as a sociopath she don't care about the

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.

Macbeth shows several symptoms of schizophrenia. These symptoms are techniques that Shakespeare uses to create the idea that Macbeth has a mental illness. Macbeth's main symptom is detachment from reality. While contemplating killing Banquo to secure his fate, Macbeth begins to see an imaginary dagger in front of him. He asks, "Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight, or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" (II.2.35-39) Then after Banquo is dead, Macbeth believes he sees his ghost during a dinner with the country's nobility. Macbeth says, "The table's full." (III.4.46) Lennox points to the seat where Macbeth sees Banqo's ghost sitting and tells him that it is empty. Puzzled, Macbeth asks, "Where?" (III.4.48) He

Lady Macbeth is a complex and intriguing character in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. She is a difficult character to embody as her personality seems split between two sides, one that is pure evil, sly and conniving in contrast to her softer, vulnerable, weak and feminine side. In the play we see her in these two main ways. The reader may feel a certain animosity towards Lady Macbeth throughout the first few acts as her personality appears more and more distasteful, in spite of this towards the end she has a serious breakdown over the guilt that torments her, even in her sleep, regarding her hand in Duncan’s untimely death.

Lady Macbeth basically explains to the guests that her husband has panic attacks and is kind of loosing his mind "has your foolishness paralyzed you completely” “please, don’t speak to him. He’s getting worse and worse.”(119)

Doctors are now trained to deal with and understand patients to be able to properly medicate and diagnose them. Because of the time period, nothing could be done. Lady Macbeth’s greed led her into taking her own life. Due to Lady Macbeth’s belief in the supernatural, paranoid thoughts, and disconnect from reality, it is clear that she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.

As a result, she stated the following, “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.” Through this she begs the spirits to take away any sympathy within in her in order to have the wit, desire, and drive her husband lacked of in order to become royalty. Through Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare shows there’s no such thing as impossible on the way to getting what one wants. In addition to giving up her femininity, Lady Macbeth also sacrifices her morals by convincing her husband to kill the king, when failing to do so; she states, “When you durst do it, then you were a man.” In other words she convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan, despite knowing what a horrid crime that was. The struggle to go through anything standing in her way caused her to lose herself as well as her sanity. After realizing what she had caused, she began to lose her mind. She would constantly see her hands covered in blood by those who had been murdered along the way. Unable to get rid of the image in her head, led her to eventually commit suicide.

Lady Macbeth showed that she controlled and was ashamed of Macbeth when he became paranoid when he seen Banquo’s ghost at the dinner “You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting with most admired disorder” (Shakespeare 2.4.109-110).

Lady Macbeth, in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, is among his most celebrated characters. In the beginning of The Tragedy of Macbeth, she is persistent and ambitious. However, throughout the play she declines and becomes hysterical. Her status among critics varies; but, all agree that Lady Macbeth’s role is vital to this timeless drama. The intricate relationship of Lady Macbeth and her husband is continuously studied and critiqued. There are numerous opinions on their partnership, some of which say that Lady Macbeth is the villain and others state that she is the heroine. Lady Macbeth is popular because of her ambition, power, and influence; her deterioration from before to after King Duncan’s murder is what causes her to be infamous today; the various controversial interpretations of her character and her relationship with Macbeth emphasize her complexity and importance.

It has become clear at this point, that Lady Macbeth cannot bear to live with herself, knowing of all the affliction and devastation that she and her husband had caused. She concedes her guilt, and then brings forth comeuppance upon herself via suicide. Although Lady Macbeth is willing to accept the disconsolate reality that enshrouds her life, Macbeth still persists on living a life of