Macbeth Vs. Lady Macbeth
How do you think lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s madness differ?
The madness of lady Macbeth and Macbeth are both similar and different. They both hallucinate,
have killer minds and both go crazy.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth hallucinate, but both hallucinate different things. Macbeth hallucinates
about a floating dagger which gives him a sign that he will kill the king. He has another that happens
after he murders Duncan and sees the ghost saying, “sleep no more…”. When lady Macbeth hallucinates
she gets scared of the blood on her hands because after the murder, blood scared her. And she also gets
scared of the dark cause in the beginning of the play she channels dark and evil spirits.
They both have crazy, deadly, scary killer minds that make them both go crazy. In the beginning
Macbeth and lady Macbeth both agree to murder Duncan in his sleep. At first Macbeth isn’t sure, he
thinks of all the bad things that could happen to him. But after he does the murder, he changes. Lady
Macbeth on the other hand wanted to murder king Duncan to get the crown, but after she murders the
king,