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- 2. MACBETH Macbeth is a Shakespearean play, and subsequent 2015 movie, which masterfully illustrates the attributes of behavioral expectation confirmation and self-fulfilling prophecy in social psychology.
- 3. Behavioral Expectation Confirmation: people's social expectations lead them to behave in ways that cause others to confirm their expectations. Another’s belief about you causes you to act to meet that expectation. LADY MACBETH
- 4. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: a belief that causes itself to become true. A belief you have causes you to alter your actions and/or thoughts until it comes true. MACBETH
- 5. MACBETH CLIFFS NOTES Before the Prophecy • Macbeth • Cousin of King Duncan • Helped defeat 2 armies • 3rd in line to the throne • Lady Macbeth • Burning ambition to be queen • Hard-hearted, ruthless The Witches Prophecy • Macbeth, an army general • Will be promoted to thane • Will be crowned King of Scotland • Banquo, an army general • Fathers a line of Scottish kings • [Will not be the king]
- 6. MACBETH CLIFFS NOTES After the Prophecy • Macbeth • Skepticism and intrigue ensue • Named Thane of Cawdor • Tells wife about prophecy • Believes he will be crowned king • Murders to take throne now • Lady Macbeth • Allays Macbeth’s uncertainty • Taunts Macbeth into murdering the king • Masterminds the murder and framing of servants
- 7. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ANALYSIS Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • Macbeth believes he will be king and he alters his actions, he murders, to make it happen • He orders Banquo’s murder to retain kingship; stop prophecy • Banquo and King Duncan’s sons help battle and kill Macbeth, which completes both prophecies
- 8. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ANALYSIS Behavioral Expectation Confirmation • Lady Macbeth insists Macbeth become the king; therefore setting the expectation to be met • Mocking his courage and resolve with “Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” is the impetus for Macbeth to fulfill her expectations
- 9. PSYCHOLOGY SUBPLOTS • Lady Macbeth • Simultaneously causing her own self-fulfilling prophecy • Believes she should be queen • Orchestrates king’s murder • Suffers psychotic episodes • Sleep walks; rambles • Complains of blood stains on hands which aren’t there • Eventually succumbs to the stress and commits suicide • Macbeth • Suffers psychotic episodes • Hears voices • Sees ghost of murdered king and Banquo • Hyperactive rants due to stress of the murders and hallucinations • Subjects lose faith in him, want another king, support the opposition who kill him thus fulfilling the prophecy
- 10. REFERENCES • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_confirmation • https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/macbeth/study-help/famous-quotes • https://freeenglishessaysandguides.blogspot.com/2013/02/macbeth-plot- summary.html
Editor's Notes
- To understand the movie’s correlation to psychology, we must first understand the 2 key attributes…
- Lady Macbeth wants her husband to be King and will do anything to make it happen.
- Macbeth is initially skeptical of the Thane and Kingship prophecy, but then accepts it as true.
- The things we know about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth before the prophecy occurs are very important. Macbeth is a good soldier and defender of the crown and comfortable with that role in life. Lady Macbeth has very little care for others and desires power – she wants the crown.
- Macbeth was skeptical. He and Banquo “brushed off” the witches’ portrayal of future events. Then the King’s men approach with the news Macbeth has been named Thane. The 1st part of the prophecy comes true. This very important moment causes Macbeth to re-think the prophecy’s accuracy and tells his wife in a letter. Lady Macbeth convinces her husband it is true AND it needs to happen now – murder the King the take the throne or be a coward!
- Once Macbeth accepts the prophecy and the idea that he is “destined” to be King, he belief about assuming the crown and his actions toward the King, his cousin, change dramatically. Macbeth has another issue – he knows, and didn’t tell his wife – that Banquo will father the line of Kings which means Macbeth will lose the crown. Again, he changes his beliefs and actions, this time toward Banquo and orders him to be killed along with his family.
- The conditioning that occurs in Macbeth is negative reinforcement from Lady Macbeth to coerce the change in his behavior and convince him to act as she desires and expects.
- In the end, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth fail to meet their subjects’ social expectations for the behavior of royalty, which results in their untimely deaths.