Macbeth Brief Psychotic Disorder Analysis

Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech caused by extreme life stress are all symptoms of Brief Psychotic Disorder. Macbeth in William Shakespeare Macbeth, shows theses characteristics. Macbeth is a former soldier who visits three witches they give in three prophecies, the first Thane of Glamis which he already was. The second Thane of Cawdor, which he already was announced but he doesn 't know yet. The final prophecy Macbeth was given was that he will be King.With this he tells his wife Lady Macbeth the news, and convinces himself that he must kill the king. Lady Macbeth agrees, yet Macbeth starts to have doubts. Lady Macbeth pressures him and tells him to quit being a woman with this Lady Macbeth sets the murder up and Macbeth goes through with it. After this tragedy, they turn to Macbeth and gave him the throne of the Kingdom. The question is was Macbeth evil or sick, Macbeth suffers from Brief Psychotic Disorder and he is not evil. Macbeth is pressured to kill King Duncan by Lady Macbeth. Before Macbeth kills Duncan, he begins to have doubts about his action. Lady Macbeth gets aggravated with him and starts to yell at jim to get the job done. We can see this pressure by her when she says, “When you durst do it, then you were a man;/and to be more than what

Some people would say that Macbeth is evil and just because he hallucinates it doesn 't mean that he is sick. In the article “What causes hallucinations?” by George Krucik, it says, “Hallucinations are sensations that appear real but are created by your mind. They can affect all five of your senses. For example, you might hear a voice that no one else in the room can hear or see an image that isn’t real. These symptoms may be caused by mental illness, the side effects of medications, or physical illnesses like epilepsy or alcoholism”. Nowhere in there does it say a cause of hallucinations is a person being evil. In all of the reasons why a person would hallucinate they go against him being