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Harvest: An International Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Research Journal
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Volume II Special Issue II February 2022
Name of Author :
Abhishek Chowdhury
Title of the paper :
“THESE DEEDS MUST NOT BE THOUGHT/ AFTER THESE WAYS; SO, IT WILL MAKE US MAD,”: LADY MACBETH BEGINS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH WHEN SHE BECOMES MAD
Abstract:
Madness became an epidemic in England around 1580 and continued for the next several decades. The Bard faithfully reproduces this symptomatic malady in his plays. People began to talk about a kind of madness that was specifically feminine. Shakespeare appears to have been one of the first progressive voices to suggest that madness in women could be traced to deeper psychological matters without any direct relation to their sex. This paper is an attempt at a reading of the mechanics of madness in Shakespeares Lady Macbeth, who is revoking affiliation with either gender. Her case is exemplary of a pre-modern form of knowledge different from modern psychoanalysis, as she cannot be confined either in monstrous or in angelic roles both of which are constructs of patriarchal society.
Keywords :
Madness, monstrous, angelic, patriarchal
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Page Number :
7-10