Lady Macbeth is an ambitious woman who wants to be queen of Scotland, and she is fearful that her husband, Macbeth, lacks the courage to become the king of Scotland. In order for her to become queen and Macbeth to become king, she has to plot a scheme to kill king Duncan. ( The thesis statement is Lady Macbeth suffers from Post Traumatic Disorder, and Obsessive compulsive Disorder by her sleepwalking and having hallucinations . One may argue that Lady Macbeth could be suffering from Post Traumatic
sense, Lady Macbeth was a stereotypical wife in the beginning of the play. She pushed her husband to take measures that he wouldn’t have done otherwise. She was a master manipulator, and Macbeth was continually doubting himself. These attributes don’t stay with the characters throughout the play; in fact, the roles of the couple almost switch entirely. After the Macbeths undergo a desperate hunger for power, we are left with an arrogant tyrant, Macbeth and his confused, remorseful wife, Lady Macbeth
The Illness of Ambition Ambition is a strong desire to achieve something in life. A person without any ambition is like a boat without a rudder. Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, is a play, which refers to a character whose ambition takes over his conscience. Macbeth is a character who gradually changes over the course of the play due to the lust for power that his wife, Lady Macbeth, manipulated him into doing. A strong ambition for power caused Macbeth to make sinister decisions that only result
Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes a person to lose touch with reality. Schizophrenics often believe that people are out to cause them harm. Being unable to distinguish appearance vs reality can often make life confusing for them. Confusion often creates some of the most compelling conflicts in literature. Shakespeare uses this confusion in his works such as Macbeth. Throughout the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses the confusion between appearance and reality to characterize
The Diagnosis of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth People throughout history have suffered from mental illness but were either undocumented or unstudied. In literary novels or plays, characters would depict characteristics of modern mental health issues which were generally created as witchcraft or demonic possession. In Macbeth, Macbeth fail to resist an unrealistic delusion of invincibility, which turns out to become fatal. As Macbeth, Lady Macbeth also appears to suffer with similar delusion as her husband
Dickens present female characters as villain in ‘Macbeth’ and ‘great expectations’. Intro: Both Shakespeare and Dickens present the villainous female characters in ‘Macbeth’ and ‘great expectations’ comparatively similar yet considerably contradictory. Lady Macbeth, the witches, Miss Havisham and Estella are all presented as strong, powerful and manipulative women and almost seem like feminist characters. They all seem to be trying to get some sort of either secretive, unknown or open revenge on the male