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Lady Macbeth obviously has something wrong with her. She has this thirst for power and also pressures Macbeth to kill the king so that they can be crowned.
The way she has psychotic episodes and does reckless behavior shows that this could be a sever illness for her. Not only might she have BPD (borderline personality disorder) she may also have post-partum depression that involves her having a baby and the baby not making it can bring up a tremendous amount of emotions.
Nevertheless, Lady Macbeth shows many forms of illness such as wanting to kill the king and frame it on the guards. As crazy as this may sound, she may not have any control of herself wanting and thinking these things. Borderline Personality
Disorder could be her flaw that
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If your mother or father have this disorder than you will most likely have it as well.
In addition to her illness, Signs and symptoms that Lady Macbeth shows are very familiar with this disorder. Extreme reactions are very strong in Lady
Macbeth’s personality, which is the number one symptom in this disorder. Lady
Macbeth realized that Macbeth brought back the daggers after murdering the king and in an instant scowled at Macbeth and brought the daggers to the guards herself.
Though we cant actually see and feel what Lady Macbeth does, we can presume that she has a distorted or unstable image of herself which could possibly lead to many
different actions, if she portrayed herself as a murderer than most likely that is what she will do. The biggest sign of Lady Macbeth having this disorder is inappropriate intense anger, Lady Macbeth quotes “when you durst do it, then you were a man”(Act 1, Scene 7) this quote meant that if Macbeth did not kill the king then he is not a man. So Lady Macbeth is deranged to the point where if Macbeth doesn’t do what she wants than she will do it herself.
However, Lady Macbeth may also suffer from Post-pardum Depression. In
Macbeth’s tragic downfall into insanity could be modernly diagnosed as the mental disorder schizophrenia. Many of the actions carried out by Macbeth during the play lead the reader to believe that Macbeth is crazy. However, by today’s medical standards, Macbeth falls into several of the categories under the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as, "a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought, and conduct."
living in such a manner. I did not know the exact cause of her anxiety
In Act 1, Scene 5 we can see that Lady Macbeth is very ambitious for
worse and worse...go at once..." She is still very protective of Macbeth's reputation and is
Lady Macbeth is getting very confused that Macbeth is refusing to kill King Duncan and she cannot commit the crime her self because evidently King Duncan resembles too much like her father. She fells that Macbeth is not a man and she ridicules and tries to persuade him to kill King Duncan by saying that he is not a man and that the only way to become a man is to kill the king (regicide).
One that was immediately noticed she may have is a dissociative disorder. When traumatic events are happening to her she dissociates to protect herself. She becomes a famous singer everyone loves and admires. Although it may not be dissociative identity disorder as she does not dissociate into more than one person when it happens. She becomes a famous star all the times she dissociates so this may rule out that disorder. Dissociative amnesia may be a possibility. I believe there would be enough evidence to show she has a dissociative disorder. Another mental disorder she may have is depression. It is very noticeable how unhappy she is due to the abuse and bullying of others. She believe’s them when they say awful things about them and thinks very negatively of herself. She wishes she was dead and always keeps to herself. All her traumatic life events including rape and abuse could most definitely bring on depression. I feel there is enough evidence to diagnose her with
On the other hand, Lady Macbeth views on manhood are much different from her husband's and the other characters in the play. Unlike Macbeth, Lady Macbeth envisions a man to be opportunist, cruel and ruthless instead of honorable and loyal. When she receives the letter from Macbeth and learns of her chance to be queen, she prays that the spirits "that tend on mortal thoughts [would] unsex [her]", and that she will be "fill[ed] from the crown to the toe of direst cruelty", so that she would have the strength to murder Duncan. Believing the spirits would "unsex" her, she hopes that she wouldn't be bothered by a woman's kindness or remorse and thus would become a cruel killer, like a man.
In Act 1, scene7 she really excel’s herself in how far she will go to manipulate Macbeth, to get her way. He not prepared for her rage when he announces his change of heart.
has sent to her, Lady Macbeth begins to plot and plan how Macbeth can become
...herself, Seyton delivers the news to Macbeth. Macbeth is very calm when he hears the news and doesn’t seem to mind. Macbeth says that she would have died sooner or later (V, v, 17-23)
Lady Macbeth from the very beginning talks about how she wishes to be a man:
In Act 1, Scene 7 of this play, MacBeth begins a monologue. In this soliloquy, the character shows, as Shakespeare’s characters are known to, a human truth: he is conflicted with morals of killing his king; the mind’s battle between personal want and acting ethically. He states an ethical appeal to himself, saying, “First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed,” meaning that he should act as a dutiful subject and not slaughter his good king. MacBeth is aware that his only motivation to kill the king is his ambition, and that ambition drives people to disaster. At the end of MacBeth’s monologue, he had chosen not to kill King Duncan, and shares his decision with his wife Lady Macbeth once she enters.
that her son Connor may be experiencing some type of mental illness; she avoids dealing with
At the beginning of the film, Susanna is speaking with a psychologist. She appears out of touch with reality and discusses experiencing having lapses in time. As the psychiatrist According to Varcarolis’s Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, “Borderline personality disorder is characterized by severe impairments in functioning. The Major feature of this disorder are patterns of marked instability in emotional control or regulation, impulsivity, identity or self-image distortions, unstable mood, and unstable interpersonal relationships.
possibility that she might be using this as a coping mechanism to forget her past