Macbeth Act 4 Scene 4
Macbeth:
Lady Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 Line 63-71“O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan. Oh, these flaws and starts, impostors to true fear, would well become a woman’s story at a winter’s fire, authorized by her grandam.”
Analysis: This is when Macbeth starts to hallucinate the Ghost of Banquo. He starts his hallucinations during his murders. There was the time with the floating dagger when he was about to kill Duncan and now a ghost. This shows how insane he can behave when his mind is full of corrupted thoughts. Through the corruption and temptation to kill Banquo he did so, and now suffers the consequence of insanity which is shown through his outbreaks and hallucinations. …show more content…
Macduff Act 4 scene 3 Lines 31-34 “Bleed, bleed, poor country: great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, for goodness dare not check thee: wear thou thy wrongs; the title is affeered.—Fare thee well, lord.
I would not be the villain that thou think’st for the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp, and the rich East to boot.”
Analysis: This is a line where Macduff tells of Macbeth and the country. He exclaims that as Macbeth is king, the country keeps bleeding. Macbeth is now ruling as a tyrant assumingly killing off many people. Macduff states that he wouldn’t want to be like him in any way for Macbeth has become the villain. One does not become the villain without doing harm and in turn in some way being insane. The definition of insanity states of extreme irrationality, which Macbeth is now
conveying.
Lady Macbeth: Doctor act 5 scene 1 line 69-75 “Foul whisp’rings are abroad, Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God forgive us all! Look after her; remove from her the means of all annoyance, and still keep eyes upon her. So good night.”
Analysis: The doctor is just telling of how Lady Macbeth has come down with an “infected mind”, which in probability means insanity. He talks about “unnatural deeds” which could be of the murders. Even though Lady Macbeth did not physically kill anyone, it seems that that act caused “unnatural troubles”, madness. In her corrupted ambition for power, she ultimately fell down to the level of insanity.
Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 Lines 47-60 “What beast was ’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. Nor time nor place did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.” Analysis: This is the moment when Lady Macbeth attempts to manipulate Macbeth into killing Duncan. This shows how the corrupted thought of killing a great man is creating insanity. Again with the definition of insanity being about extreme irrationality, this cannot be considered rational. In the pursuit of power, Lady Macbeth becomes overcome with corruption, trying to kill off the king.
Lady Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 Line 63-71“O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said led you to Duncan. Oh, these flaws and starts, impostors to true fear, would well become a woman’s story at a winter’s fire, authorized by her grandam.”
Analysis: This is when Macbeth starts to hallucinate the Ghost of Banquo. He starts his hallucinations during his murders. There was the time with the floating dagger when he was about to kill Duncan and now a ghost. This shows how insane he can behave when his mind is full of corrupted thoughts. Through the corruption and temptation to kill Banquo he did so, and now suffers the consequence of insanity which is shown through his outbreaks and hallucinations. …show more content…
Macduff Act 4 scene 3 Lines 31-34 “Bleed, bleed, poor country: great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, for goodness dare not check thee: wear thou thy wrongs; the title is affeered.—Fare thee well, lord.
I would not be the villain that thou think’st for the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp, and the rich East to boot.”
Analysis: This is a line where Macduff tells of Macbeth and the country. He exclaims that as Macbeth is king, the country keeps bleeding. Macbeth is now ruling as a tyrant assumingly killing off many people. Macduff states that he wouldn’t want to be like him in any way for Macbeth has become the villain. One does not become the villain without doing harm and in turn in some way being insane. The definition of insanity states of extreme irrationality, which Macbeth is now
conveying.
Lady Macbeth: Doctor act 5 scene 1 line 69-75 “Foul whisp’rings are abroad, Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God forgive us all! Look after her; remove from her the means of all annoyance, and still keep eyes upon her. So good night.”
Analysis: The doctor is just telling of how Lady Macbeth has come down with an “infected mind”, which in probability means insanity. He talks about “unnatural deeds” which could be of the murders. Even though Lady Macbeth did not physically kill anyone, it seems that that act caused “unnatural troubles”, madness. In her corrupted ambition for power, she ultimately fell down to the level of insanity.
Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 Lines 47-60 “What beast was ’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. Nor time nor place did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.” Analysis: This is the moment when Lady Macbeth attempts to manipulate Macbeth into killing Duncan. This shows how the corrupted thought of killing a great man is creating insanity. Again with the definition of insanity being about extreme irrationality, this cannot be considered rational. In the pursuit of power, Lady Macbeth becomes overcome with corruption, trying to kill off the king.