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Review Of Martha Stout's 'Inside The Mind Of A Sociopath'

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In Macbeth, the Shakespeare Tragedy, play where Macbeth eliminates anyone that gets in the way of his road to being King. In Inside the Mind of a Sociopath, Martha Stout in the essay explains the reader the different phases that Sociopaths go through.King Duncan does not show any Sociopathic behavior while on the other hand, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth do show Sociopathic behavior. Lady Macbeth is a Sociopath because of how she wants to control Macbeth. As the play progresses Lady Macbeth is been manipulative and wants to control Macbeth on his actions. Lady Macbeth is a Sociopath as Stout states, “ while others are filled with dreams and wild ambitious”(Stout 1).Stout claims that sociopaths have wild ambitions and dreams. Wild Ambition is someone with a strong desire to do anything that's possible to achieve one's goal …show more content…

This relates to Macbeth and in the scene Lady Macbeth says, “ While shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and Masterdom”(1.4.75-80). Stouts quote explains the behavior that Sociopaths experience and this is a direct connection because in the play, Lady Macbeth has “wild ambitions and dreams” and those come through as they want to rule Scotland. Lady Macbeth in order to achieve her goals or “wild ambition” she controls Macbeth to do whatever she wants done. To continue, Stout points out another direct quote that relates to Lady Macbeth is, “Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs”(Stout 1). This quote connect on how people act different around others. The ability of “strange fantasy” relates to Lady Macbeth directly because how she has this “wild

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