British Literature grade 11 January 11 2018 Macbeths Poisoned Mind Mental deterioration usually stems from an excessive amount of harmful outside sources These substances pressures or people can lead to devastating mindsets and behavior on a person warping them from who they once were In Shakespeare s Macbeth Macbeth seems inherently evil from the start but in reality Macbeth used to be a mentally stable man that would never harm his fellow man As the play goes on Macbeth dissolves from a moral person in the beginning to one who is easily influenced to turn evil to his crumbling mental state following his evil deeds With Lady Macbeth puppeteering his actions she purposefully manipulates him to do what she wishes with his mental being suffering the consequences In the beginning of the play Macbeth is described as a noble and brave man by his colleagues and acts accordingly so
