The Connotations Of Lady Macbeth

The connotations associated with the word “psychotic” often deal with insanity and lunacy; however, the actual definition of “psychotic” is unambiguously a mental state characterized by a loss of contact with reality and an inability to think rationally. On one hand, the connotations of this word strongly fit the attributes of Lady Macbeth, but on the other hand, the dictionary definition better suits Macbeth. The circumstances that Macbeth involves himself in transmuted his mental state, so much so that he saw “a dagger of the mind, a false creation / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain” (II.II.I). By hallucinating a weapon used to murder, Macbeth portrays the inability to think rationally; therefore, He can be distinguished as “psychotic.”