Insanity In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

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A tale of a man to king, of supernatural wonders, of murder, and of what seems to be an undeniable fate. It consists of a normal man who is given the prophecy of royalty. He then becomes power-hungry and weighs out the risk of murder, to assume the throne he kills his close friend King Duncan. This is not the only time he murders for his good. Throughout the story, he gets less and less aware of the consequences of what will happen and he just gets unattached from reality altogether, to the point of no morals and insanity. Macbeth goes from morals, a clean soul, and truly thinking about his every decision. To insanity, barely any or just no morals, and to where he wasn't able to see a future in front of him. At the very end of his life, he …show more content…

Come, let me clutch thee. I have not seen thee, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressedèd brain? This shows that Macbeth had morals at this point in the play and was thinking about what he was doing. These things disappear more and more in the play until his downfall. In the next two soliloquies, Macbeth is becoming more paranoid about a couple of things such as his friend Banquo knowing about the murder and possibly taking his power from underneath him. Macbeth is also starting to develop a strong fear that Banquo's children will receive his throne rather than his bloodline because he has no children. In the fourth soliloquy, Macbeth says “If ’t be so, For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered; Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for them; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!” He is saying that he damned himself, and killed a close friend, just to have some of Banquo's children inherit the throne