Chloe/Mental Health
A collection of images portraying the madness and absurdity as well as the prominent Mental Health issues throughout Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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An excellent depiction of how Macbeth's mental stability becomes more and more shattered throughout the coarse of the play. He has become driven with guilt and madness, stemming from his wife, and it has made him crazy. His mind begins playing tricks on himself, and it is almost as if he has lost himself completely.
Representation of Macbeth's "heat-oppressed brain". Between the floating dagger and the hallucination of Banquo sitting in his chair, the guilt of his crime has definitely caused Macbeth to lose himself, as well as his overall mental clarity, causing him to overthink many things, leading to utter madness.
Depression, Schizophrenia as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, are some of the Mental Illnesses that are shown to us throughout the play from within Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Hyper arousal, nightmares, depression, avoidance, hallucinations, delusions, anxiety and violence, are all symptoms of the mental illnesses portrayed in this play.
An excellent portrayal of Lady Macbeth, and her numerous personalities she reveals throughout the play. We understand of course that Lady Macbeth does not have one shred of goodness or kindness in her soul. She exhibits none of the normal qualities a woman should present. She is not nurturing or loving in the slightest, and has no remorse towards the pain she has caused others. However, she puts on an innocent, feminine front to hide the truly barbaric self that she really is.
The mental instability in Macbeth becomes increasingly more prominent as we get farther into the play. Lady Macbeth's cure for her infected mind is to kill herself, while Macbeth's cure is to find an obsession - and so he does, with power and knowledge. He is determined to know exactly how to keep the power he gained, in order to justify his own actions. It is only just before his death that Macbeth realizes his own insanity.
I believe that Macbeth suffers from paranoia schizophrenia, one of the most damaging of all mental disorders. It causes its victims to lose touch with reality. They begin to hear, see, or feel things that aren't really there and/or become convinced of things that simply aren't true. Proof of this disorder is outlined in several parts throughout the play, like the floating dagger for example.