These are examples of both external and internal conflicts within the play and within Macbeth himself. Throughout the play, Macbeth is revealed to have thoughts and hallucinations that do not actually occur. These are caused by the guilt he feels based on the reality caused by his actions. “The implicit suggestion is that there is a reality outside the cave, and a light to see it in, even if men refuse to see it. Macbeth's vision (in Act V, scene V) is more desperate: there is no such reality and no such light. What light there is is the faintly flickering glimmer of illusion: "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death." His problem was simply to distinguish the hallucinatory experience from the real, and there was still no doubt that the real is indeed real. Here in the soliloquy of "tomorrow", however, it is the very status of reality that constitutes the problem". (Rauch) When Macbeth finally realizes what he has done, and that there is little time to make up for it, he comes to the conclusion that all of his hallucinations were the direct result of the damage he has caused in his kingdom. He often didn't see the damage done, because he didn't see the difference between what was real and what he thought in his head. He often talked himself into believing that what he was doing was for a good reason, but eventually he came to the conclusion that he had one
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