The Many Diagnosis of Lady Macbeth In 1623 William Shakespeare wrote one of the goriest plays that is known as The Tragedy of Macbeth. In the play there were two main characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth was very humble and calm and Lady Macbeth was controlling and made the decisions. In the play “Macbeth” Lady Macbeth suffers from two mental illnesses bipolar disorder, and antisocial disorder. In “ Macbeth” Lady Macbeth shows many symptoms of having a bipolar
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