Lady Macbeth seems to be losing her mind along with her husband. One night in the palace she goes into a trance with a candle in her hand. The doctor and gentle women are amazed at her decent into pure madness. While in this trance she is moaning about the murders of lady Macduff and Banquo, she says she sees blood on her hands that she knows will never be washed away. Lady Macbeth feels extreme guilt for her and her husbands actions. She kills herself in this "trance". Some don't believe suicide while sleep walking isn't possible but it is medically proven its called parasomina pseudo-suicide. in a recent event New York times shared a case where a young designer Tobias Wong hung himself while sleep walking. He had a history of weird activity's in his sleep walking such as billing clients, cooking steak dinner, and making silly outfits for his cats. They reported explains that he had been over stressed and because when your asleep your not thinking of right and wrong and do's and don'ts. When sleep walking its all learned behaviors or actions. Our prefrontal cortex which essentially makes us human, this is our personality and decision making part of the brain. During sleep it is turned off, so while sleepwalking your not aware of what your doing. Lady Macbeth I don't believe committed sleepwalking suicide. I think she either went crazy or the guilt just built up to much and she couldn't take it.
That's crazy that people can actually kill themselves while they are sleepwalking. However, for Lady Macbeth she probably killed herself from all of her accumulated guilt.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed each of your posts and the pictures. I wanted to comment on this post specifically because I recognized Lady Macbeth from the movie Mr. Bryson had us watch, I bet he will like that! Personally I think it was just too weird of a movie. Anyways you have a fantastic blog!
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