Theme Of Paranoia In Macbeth

“Et tu, Brute,” Just like Caesar, King Duncan met their demise from the blade of a trusted “friend's” sword (Julius Caesar, 3.1.77). Macbeth’s role in the murder of King Duncan is among the most menacing of crimes. Although Macbeth commits the murder, his wife instigates the entire plan. Lady Macbeth forced Macbeth into murdering the King which puts Macbeth in a delusional state where he questions his actions. The premeditated murder of King Duncan in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth can be blamed on one person only, Lady Macbeth. Even though the blood is on Macbeth’s hands, literally, the plan was not set in motion until Lady Macbeth organized the slaughter. Macbeth fully shows his belief in the concept of Happy Wife, Happy Life.

During Duncan’s visit to Macbeths home he begins to change his mind about the deed, “We will proceed no further in this business.”(W.S. 41) But Lady Macbeth does anything to keep him from evading the task, “Art though afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem.”(W.S. 41) Lady Macbeth encouraged Macbeth to kill which made Macbeths mindset to continue on with the

The play the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is about grief/paranoia and reveals that killing someone will leave you feeling guilty and then lead to paranoia. Macbeth throughout the play shows that he is losing his mind. For example, Macbeth proceeds to say, “Is this dagger which I see before me…”(2.1.34-35). This is when macbeth is imagining a dagger in front of him and it is haunting him. When he is imagining the dagger it shows that the paranoia is setting in and he is beginning to go crazy. By imagining the dagger Macbeth decides to proceed with their plans and kill Duncan. After Macbeth kills duncan he receives the crown but soon realizes he has no sons and Banquo's children will get the crown after his death. Macbeth exclaims,

Lady macbeth is showing paranoid sins she is terrified of what might happen to her if they find out that she was the one that gave the idea to Macbeth about killing the

When Lady Macbeth is first planning a way to make Macbeth king, she knows that he is still too kind to act upon his ambitions, so she decides to take matters into her own hands. Lady Macbeth throws aside morals and kindness, instead becoming a cruel and cold-hearted person as a result of her thirst for power. When the time for Duncan’s murder to take place arrives and Macbeth does not follow the plan, Lady Macbeth smears the guards’ with blood herself. An act such as this she could carry out, but not the murder itself, which is explained in the quote, “Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done ‘t. (2.1.12-13)” In Act 1, Lady Macbeth had seemingly stripped herself of any remorse or doubt that may interfere with the murder, but

Later on when Macbeth is starting to question if he should carry the act out or not and starts to reminisce about how much Duncan has helped him throughout the years; Lady Macbeth enters and reassures him that murdering Duncan is the right thing to do. When Macbeth asks what would happen if the murder didn’t work out correctly, Lady Macbeth assures him that’s not going to happen and tells him exactly what to do. Lady Macbeth is so mesmerized by title of King that her husband would inherit, that she doesn’t even think about the consequences of their actions if they were to be caught.

The illness Lady Macbeth is troubled with is known as paranoid schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental-illness that impacts millions of people’s lives (SMAGLIK, PAUL. "Schizophrenia's Genetic Spark”). Schizophrenic patients typically begin hearing voices and seeing things that aren’t there (Corvin, Aiden. "The Changing Faces Of Schizophrenia.").

After all of the preparations have been made to carry out the death of Duncan, Lady Macbeth ponders on killing Duncan herself but humanly tells Macbeth she can not do it because "he resembled my father as he slept." (II, sc ii, 12-13) Clearly a softer, woman like side of Lady Macbeth is present here, unlike what she asked for by asking the spirits to "unsex" her (I, sc vi, 41) Even just after the murder occurs, Lady Macbeth shows her compassionate side towards Macbeth by attempting to calm his nerves and even manages to bring a bit of humor and irony in to the situation by saying "These deeds must not be thought after these ways: so, it will make us mad." (II, sc ii, 32) Lady Macbeth's attempts to console her husband after so vile a deed are accented when she herself also laces the guard's daggers with blood and then plants them on them. By doing this she fulfilled her plan of framing Duncan's guards for the murder as seen when she says "his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell." (I, sc vii, 71-72.)

The word Psychotic defines as denoting or suffering from a psychosis. Psychosis is a person suffering from a severe mental disorder that doesn’t have any reality with the world. Lady Macbeth is a more psychotic character throughout the novel. In the beginning, she came up with a plan to have Macbeth kill another person and frame the guards. She told Macbeth that she would kill her own child nursing just to keep a promise. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth “'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy….With them they think on? Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what's done is done” (Macbeth.iii. Act 3 ). Throughout Act II and III, the guilt starts to antipathies on them by having Macbeth start

Lady Macbeth, and enormously ambitious woman who lusts for positions and power, performs her goals with great satisfaction and determination, yet she is not capable of tolerating the consequences of her dishonest acts. Early in the play, she seems to be the stronger and crueler of the two, as she drives her husband to kill Duncan and capture the crown. She urges her husband heartlessly to kill Duncan and questions his manhood. And that if he didn't go through with the murder he would be seen as a coward. She is eventually driven to distraction of her own conscience. However, after the bloodshed begins Lady Macbeth is a victim of guilt and madness to a greater amount than her husband. She is so absorbed in her actions that she sleepwalks at night, "Will these hands never be clean?"

However Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to be the king and powerful and her only ambition is to help him be the king. However Macbeth decides to kill his king because of his ambition on becoming a king. Lady Macbeth intimidate Macbeth’s manhood by 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" (act I, scene vii). This made Macbeth begin to think, but Lady Macbeth manipulated his mind to think that killing King Duncan is the right thing to do. Lady Macbeth used all techniques to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan. Macbeth didn’t want to kill King Duncan but Lady Macbeth forced him to kill Duncan, however he killed Duncan to prove himself to Lady Macbeth and to become the king. Lady Macbeth is an ambitious woman who can manipulate Macbeth comfortably, although she manipulates his confidence by playing with his courage. When Macbeth thinks of not following his plan to kill King Duncan, Lady Macbeth disrespect him when she hears that he changed his

Lady Macbeth then jokes about forgetting the incident as “These deeds must not be thought after these ways: so, it will make us mad” (A2 S2 44). Afterwards she smears blood on the guards, and then tells Macbeth to change into nightly wear. At this point Lady Macbeth has complete control over Macbeth. She even tries to make Macbeth feel free of guilt, even though he was the actual one to kill the King. When Lady Macbeth is told of Duncan’s murder she cries in horror “What!

Initially, Lady Macbeth is completely unaffected by the thought of murder and in contrast, Macbeth is portrayed as an emotional mess, so much, that he refuses to enter the room in which the murder took place, “I’ll go no more./I am afraid to think what I have done” (II, ii, 65-67). On the other hand, as the play begins to conclude, Lady Macbeth finds herself overwhelmed by guilt. She has become so upset that, she relives Duncan’s murder each night, telling herself: To bed, to bed, to bed. There’s a knocking at the gate.

Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill king Duncan, so she can live her dream life. “And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man”(Macbeth 1.7.50-51). This quote explains how Lady Macbeth is trying to persuade her husband in doing the death of king Duncan. One characteristic that sticks out about lady Macbeth, Is that she is a smooth talker to whom she knows she can convince in doing what she won’t do. She tells Macbeth what he wants to hear for her own fame. “And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep”(Macbeth 1.7.61). While Macbeth is shocked and frightened about Lady Macbeth’s thoughts. She explains to him that king Duncan’s death will not be known of them, As why they do it while he is sleeping. Lady Macbeth tells him the future they will have if he does her plan. Now Scotland gets turned upside down. Macbeth kills king Duncan against his will. Lady Macbeth talked Macbeth into killing king Duncan so she would not have to live with the quilt of doing the murder. Lady Macbeth’s plan starts to unravel, As they hear a voice from another room. Macbeth is so out of sorts, that he has left the bloody dagger he use to kill king Duncan at the scene of

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy told of a man on the edge of madness. Macbeth finds out he will be king and becomes consumed with power. He descends deeper into insanity, killing anyone who will take his throne. Soon he starts to hallucinate seeing apparitions, hearing voices in his head and ultimately becomes insane. Insanity can come in different forms, some are born with dysfunctions that causes insanity. Some develop it through a variety of things such as; drugs, traumatic experience and in Macbeth’s case guilt. Macbeth’s guilt, hunger for power and paranoia maybe what cause him to kill.