Is Macbeth Mad?

 

 

 In act two scene one, Macbeth was having a moment of insanity. He has a soliloquy revealing his intentions to kill King Duncan. "The bell invites me./ Hear it not, Duncan for Icnell/ that summons thee to heaven or to hell." This is the quote that shows that he has intentions to commit the murder of King Duncan. If someone is standing there contemplating murder they are insane. They not always be, but in that moment of time they are insane. Another human being willing to commit the murder of another person is crazy. " Is this a dagger before me./ The handle towards my hand? Come let me clutch thee:/ I have thee not, and yet I still see the." (2.1. 33-35) This quote shows Macbeth's hallucinations. These might be the evidence of his pure insanity. Could his "hard times" have a result such as this? Pressure could have ben what made him temporarily mad. Lady Macbeth told him that he is not a man. That would make any man go insane. Macbeth was insane for only a temporary time, but his insanity went to the point of hallucinations and murder.