Examples Of Hallucinations In Macbeth
The Mysterious Witches.
Have you ever watched a movie about supernatural creatures and people hallucinating? Macbeth is sort of the same concept. Macbeth has all these visions and hallucinations about these witches and other things. He talks to witches and sees all these crazy things. Macbeth is a gullible a king that was easily tricked. He’s what you would call a credulous person. The hallucinations and visions in the play Macbeth are used to reveal that he is naïve.
The first hallucination Macbeth has an encounter with is the witches in the field. He is on a hill with Banquo and he sees these witches and compares them to a cat and toad. The witches are talking when Macbeth and Banquo walk up and start a conversation with them. They start …show more content…
He goes visit with the witches and the first apparitions came in the form of a armed head. The armed head symbolizes how brave of a warrior he was and his fall from being King. They tell him that he needs to fear Macduff because he will defeat him. But of course Macbeth doesn’t listen, he just basically does his own thing. So then all of a sudden a second apparition comes and this time it’s a bloody child, which symbolizes all the faultless people he has gotten rid of. The bloody child tells him anyone who is born of a woman will never defeat him. "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough" (Shakespeare 395). "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth" (Shakespeare 395).So as you can tell they are making Macbeth feel like he's undefeatable. The fourth example is the 3 apparition and the eight kings. The last one comes as a crowned child and tree, it was to show him his defeat. So he's still talking to them asking them for more information and the child tells him that he shouldn’t worry until the trees start coming up the hill to his castle. So he doesn't worry about anything. Later in the play his people start bringing him letters from Macduff but he just tells them to throw the letters away because he believes what the witches were telling him. The final vision Macbeth sees is the mirror with the 8 kings and Banquo's
Have you ever watched a movie about supernatural creatures and people hallucinating? Macbeth is sort of the same concept. Macbeth has all these visions and hallucinations about these witches and other things. He talks to witches and sees all these crazy things. Macbeth is a gullible a king that was easily tricked. He’s what you would call a credulous person. The hallucinations and visions in the play Macbeth are used to reveal that he is naïve.
The first hallucination Macbeth has an encounter with is the witches in the field. He is on a hill with Banquo and he sees these witches and compares them to a cat and toad. The witches are talking when Macbeth and Banquo walk up and start a conversation with them. They start …show more content…
He goes visit with the witches and the first apparitions came in the form of a armed head. The armed head symbolizes how brave of a warrior he was and his fall from being King. They tell him that he needs to fear Macduff because he will defeat him. But of course Macbeth doesn’t listen, he just basically does his own thing. So then all of a sudden a second apparition comes and this time it’s a bloody child, which symbolizes all the faultless people he has gotten rid of. The bloody child tells him anyone who is born of a woman will never defeat him. "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough" (Shakespeare 395). "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth" (Shakespeare 395).So as you can tell they are making Macbeth feel like he's undefeatable. The fourth example is the 3 apparition and the eight kings. The last one comes as a crowned child and tree, it was to show him his defeat. So he's still talking to them asking them for more information and the child tells him that he shouldn’t worry until the trees start coming up the hill to his castle. So he doesn't worry about anything. Later in the play his people start bringing him letters from Macduff but he just tells them to throw the letters away because he believes what the witches were telling him. The final vision Macbeth sees is the mirror with the 8 kings and Banquo's