Effects Of Macbeth's Mental Health

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The play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, illustrates the human struggles to gain and retain power even if it is able to corrupt a good person. Throughout the play, Macbeth’s mental health is deteriorating. The play reveals this through Macbeth’s impaired senses in which he sees things and hears things that do not exist. Macbeth’s mental faculties have been negatively affected by the planning and execution of several murders. After Lady Macbeth killed the king, Macbeth hearing is impaired because he begins to hear a voice that no one else is hearing. Macbeth demonstrates this by saying, “Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,the death