Many tend to go straight to calling Macbeth a psychopath whenever they talk about him and his infamous murders, but is that really a true statement? I don't think so. A psychopath is someone who needs stimulation. They are people who create a fake identity to further their goals and get what they want in life, and they are people who will stop at nothing to achieve said goals. They lack empathy and remorse, are charismatic and fake to anyone and everyone they meet, and can form themselves into whoever they want to be to please their prey, like a black spider sitting in the middle of a beautifully spun silver web, waiting for an entranced fly to come along and get stuck. Taking these factors into account, though, you come to see that Macbeth is nothing like a psychopath! Where psychopaths feel no guilt, Shakespeare's Macbeth is all about guilt. The guilt is what drives Macbeth to continue down his own path of misguided evil, driving him to the brink of sanity and causing him to commit the murders that people would assume would link him to psychopathy. So, in my opinion, Macbeth is not a psychopath. Macbeth is a good man turned evil by ambition, then driven insane by regret; don't go around calling him a psychopath, because he is a much more complicated and in-depth character than that.
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