Mental Decline Flashcards
2:1 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Hallucinations – people can hallucinate from fear. He imagines killing with a bloody knife – it’s a figment of his imagination.
“Is this a dagger which I see before me”
2:2 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Macbeth had killed Duncan
Macbeth feeling paranoid (reference to his mental decline)
Illuding to him not being masculine – Macbeth should be cool headed and unbothered about killing Duncan.
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“I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise.”
2:2 Lady Macbeth
Mental Decline
Foreshadows both of the Macbeths mental decline.
“These deeds must not be though…it will make us mad.”
2:2 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Personifying sleep as innocence – he lost his innocence after killing Duncan – now he can’t sleep.
“Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep”
2:2 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Reference to sleep – they can sleep because they are guilty. Also, refers to the proficies of the three Macbeths – no matter his title he is tainted by the shadow of blood and murder.
“Glamis that murdered sleep’, and therefore ‘Cawdor/ Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
2:2 lady Macbeth
Mental Decline
Macbeth is losing his marbles over the guilt but lady, Macbeth is currently cool headed and the one being ‘masculine’ and Macbeth is being ‘feminine’
“Wash this filthy witness from your hands”
2:2 Macbeth
Mental Decline
referring to his guilt and not wanting to think about it.
“Look on’t again, I dare note”
2:2 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Talking about the blood on his hands
Hyperbole – needs a whole ocean to wash his hands clean of the sin he committed.
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood.”
2:2 Lady Macbeth
Mental Decline
Ruthless doesn’t immediately feel guilty for their deed
Shows her immediate mental strength over Macbeth (swapped gender roles sort of)
“A little water washes us of this deed.”
3:2 Lady Macbeth
Mental Decline
Nothing was gained – everything was lost.
First time lady Macbeth has a conscious and is worried/troubled by their actions.
First sign of morality, remorsefulness, guilt, trouble.
“Nought has, all’s spent/ where our desire is got without content.”
3:2 Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Peace and death paradox, it is better to be dead because dead people rest in peace (Macbeth is suffering due to the guilt and lack of sleep he is able to get due to this)
“Better be with the dead…then on the torture of the mind to lie”
3:4 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Metaphor of the scorpions being Macbeth is full of guilt.
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
3:4 Lady Macbeth
Mental Decline
Macbeth see the ghost again and bursts into violent anger, he refers to the ghost having ruby cheeks compared to his that are blanched with fear. Demonstrating how he is living in fear as a tyrant leader afraid of who might target him after his actions.
“Keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, / When mine is blanched with fear.”
4:1 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Oath to kill Macduff
“I’ll make assurance double sure/ and take a bond of fate: thou shalt live.”
4:1 Macbeth
Mental Decline
Killing continues as he feels threatens by MacDuff. He is killing anyone in his residents and his family.
Tyrant – his morality is corrupted
“His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls.”
