I am studying the characters of Macbeth and the Duke; how they can be considered disturbed characters. The play “Macbeth” and the poem “My Last Duchess” both show psychological truths and insights into the characters. While in the poem the Duke is immediately shown to be troubled, Macbeth's phrenic deterioration occurs and develops as the play progresses. 'Macbeth is a tragic play created by Shakespeare during the English Renaissance in 1606. The play is adapted by Shakespeare to make it more lively. The work, at the time, was considered controversial. The conception of regicide committed during the killing of the king was controversial; the king was considered sent by God and answered only to God for his actions. The troubled nature of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth generates the action and events of the play. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are written by Shakespeare. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are two characters who are optically seen to be troubled in many different ways as they tend to change gender roles; however both are obsessed with the same thing which is the throne. In Act 1, Macbeth is introduced as a prosperous general, described as a "noble" and "brave" soldier who is "respected" by his king and his fellow soldiers. the location of the "Wheat of Cawdor". When Banquo and Macbeth meet the witches in Act 1, scene 3, he begins to become obsessed with power: "The greatest is behind." This line suggests that Macbeth believes that he will become more powerful in terms of gregarious status. A zeal leads him to kill the rightful king of Scotland. This act is called “regicide”. The evil of this murder has powerful effects on him and the entire country. He is easily tempted by the m... middle of paper... the subtler sensibility of femininity. The gruesome images suggest a virtually inhuman and brutally masculine vigor. In Act 2 Scene 2, Shakespeare conveys Macbeth's feelings of guilt not only in what he verbalizes, but in how he verbalizes it. The most striking thing in this scene is that his verbalizations keep folding back on themselves, continually returning to a word or phrase, "Amen," for example ("So be it," the traditional term of a prayer, is never out of his noetic concepts, though he cannot express them verbally and designate them solemnly, Lady Macbeth realizes that they must not dwell on their actions, or they will go mad, and in a precursor to his later death, there are many references to madness: " crazy', 'hurts the mind' and 'affects the brain'. In conclusion, William Shakespeare presents the characters more disturbed than the other two monologues.