The Deterioration Of Macbeths Mental State

Once the honorable fighting Macbeth known by all, "What he hath lost honorable Macbeth hath won." Act 1 Scene 2, Line 69, through different mental states chooses not to wear his armor because he is delusional by the witches prophecy that he is invincible, "none of woman born" can harm him Act 4, Scene 1, Line 96. As soon as Macbeth turns away the armor, the reader feels the sense that Macbeth is invincible, cannot be beaten in any length. But …

…he says that he will not surrender "[t]o kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, / And to be baited with the rabble's curse" Act 5, Scene 10, Lines 28-29 Overall, Macbeth visits the truth on the verge of his death, till that point he was in mental state of invincibility, the feeling of being God. As reality struck him, he was less delusional and more in the realization his fate was no different then his wife.