Diagnostic Misconceptions - Madness
English Lit: AQA GCSE Macbeth, topic 3.1.8
There are clear points in the play where Macbeth behaves irrationally. However, to say he just goes mad is an over-simplification. For example, when he is alone at Dunsinane, he speaks calmly and coherently about his age and increasing isolation: ’My way of life / Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf’.
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At what point in the play do we see Macbeth thinking rationally and behaving calmly and coherently?
To say that Macbeth is mad throughout the whole play would be what?