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Macbeth, a general in the king's army, is the Duke of Glamis. A mystical meeting with three witches sets him on a path of murder and paranioa. As the newly crowned King of Scotland, his mental illness of paranoid schizophrenia manifests. Macbeth exhibits the symptoms of hallucinations, and paranoid delusions.
Macbeth
Hallucinations
Paranoid Delusions
Shortly after seeing the unholy dagger Macbeth begins fear that he is being watched and that everyone and even the earth is out to get him.
"Thou sure and firm-set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear thy very stones prate of my whereabout, and take the present horror from which the time."
-After killing the Kind of Scotland, Macbeth believes everyone he meets knows what he did or is out to kill him.
"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep'"
"Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes."
-Macbeth begins to fear his friend Banquo. The new king believes that his friend who was also given a prophesy that he will have sons on the throne of Scotland wants to or is already planning to overthrow Macbeth.
"To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep; and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety. There is none but he whose being I do fear." (III.ii)
"Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep in the affliciton of these terrible dreams that shakes us nightly: better be with the dead." (III.ii.)
Macbeth throughout the play has hallucinations of various items and even a bloody ghost which is a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia.
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." (II.i.)
-Here Macbeth even states that he can see the dagger but it isn't really there. He continues on to confirm that he is hallucinating
"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as sight? or art thou but A DAGGER OF THE MIND, A FALSE CREATION, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
-His vision becomes more paranoid as the dagger then transforms and becomes covered in blood.
"I see thee still, and on thy blade and dudgeon GOUTS OF BLOOD, which was not so before. There's no such thing!"