Macbeth was portrayed by Shakespeare to be a strong war hero who drove the Norwegians out of Scotland, and caught the traitor the Thane of Cawdor, when really he was just a timid person who was putting on an act to please people like the king, his wife, and his friends. Although Macbeth is portrayed to be physically strong he is mentally quite weak, and this is shown when he believes every word that the witches say, and he ends up resting, thinking that no one can take him off the throne.

Macbeth is shown to be timid quite a few times in the book, in that he lacks the mental strength to do things, so his wife questions his manhood and calls him weak. After she insulted him, he thinks that he is wrong and she is right

To feeling as to sight, or art thou but

Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?"

Here Macbeth thinks that the lords are playing a trick on him by making someone look like Banquo sit in his place at the table. This is another example of Macbeth's imagination taking over because of his guilt.

, so he go against his own conscience, in the end he was right and Lady Macbeth wrong. Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth when the king is in their castle to

This is where Macbeth is imagining that there is a dagger in front of him. I think that this shows that he does actually have an imagination and sometimes it gets the better of him. Another example of Macbeth's wandering imagination is when he orders the killing of Banquo and his son Fleance, and when he is at the dinner he freaks out when he imagines Banquo's ghost.

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