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In David Crystal’s essay “2b or Not 2b?” the author starts off with this quote by John Humphrys labeling texters as “vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.” (335).
In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth wanted to gain power and leadership over the country of Scotland and become king. He wanted these authorities so desperately, Macbeth would do whatever it took to get it, even going as far as murdering not just one but multiple people. He wanted nothing more other than to be king as well as his wife. Throughout the play, Macbeth showed different varieties of many mental disorders but mainly Paranoia and Schizophrenia. Paranoia is described as ¨a delusional belief that one is being harassed, or betrayed by others¨, while Schizophrenia is described as ¨a serious long-term mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and
In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, the character of Macbeth is easily influenced by his wife and starts to spiral in his attempt to gain ambition. This is evident as he begins to behave in unexpected ways, seeing things, and negative thinking. This actively demonstrates that he is easily capable of changing drastically throughout this play by going through traumatic situations including his wife that calls him a coward if wasn’t be able to do so. In judgment of his character he would be diagnosed with schizophrenia for multipipe reasons. As being seen, Macbeth exhibits symptoms of schizophrenia to include: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and negative thoughts.
Paranoia is essentially the definition of mental unrest. As we see in Act 2 of our story, “or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding me from the heat oppressed mind.” (Act 2) Macbeth is experiencing a hallucination of the dagger that he plans to kill King Duncan with. The paranoia of being caught is eating him alive, bringing his mind to its breaking point.
One of Shakespeare’s superlative examples of a troubled mind is located in Macbeth. The impertinent character Lady Macbeth exhibited many symptoms of depression and antisocial personality disorder. While mental illness is generally developed through an accumulation of several events, as it was in Lady Macbeth’s case, it was definitely more profound after the murder of King Duncan. Prior to killing the king, Lady Macbeth unveiled sociopathic behavior through her negligence of others.
Bryanna E. McCool Mrs. Dean British Literature 25 January 2018 Mental Illness in Shakespeare’s Macbeth The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, a play wrought with prophecies, deception, guilt, and death, brings light to the symptoms of mental illnesses and their effects on the human brain’s ability to reason, trust, and act in times of pressure. Both Macbeth and his lady are plagued by mental illness, and the effects of their illness only grow as the play evolves. Macbeth’s symptoms of schizophrenia and anxiety, as well as Lady Macbeth’s anxiety as well as hallucinations that eventually push her to suicide prove that not only can mental illness alter the way a person sees a situation, but it can also drive them to harm others and themselves.
1. Lady Macbeth would be diagnosed with OCD. OCD is a disorder that is defined by obsessions and compulsions that consume more than 1 hour per day or cause clinically significant distress or impairment. Obsessions include recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images. In this case, Lady Macbeth worries that something really bad is going to happen to her or her family, and these thoughts overwhelm her mind throughout the day.
It is present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four or more of the following: Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that that the major point of the activity is lost; Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion; Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships; Is over conscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values; Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value; Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things; Adopts a miserly spending style toward self and others; And shows rigidity and stubbornness. From the information that “Lady Macbeth” shared about her behaviors and what the DSM-5 states about Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, this client shares a lot of those traits and would most likely be diagnosed with this specific disorder. The most important factor in this diagnosis is the fact that her behaviors are having a negative effect on her life and interpersonal relationships. She appears not able to make and keep friends because has said that when she had been invited out the
