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Essay Archive - Macbeth: Macbeth A Murderer?
Macbeth: Macbeth A Murderer?
At the end of the play, Malcolm refers to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as:
'...this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen...', consider the accuracy of
Malcolm's judgment by reference to their speeches and actions throughout the
In Malcolm's eyes, the Macbeths are just tyrannical murderers who snatched the
throne away from him and his father and reigned a rule of terror in all of
Scotland. But looking carefully from a different point-of-view, we see that
Macbeth is driven by the powerful contradictions in his character. Unlike other
villains, Macbeth does not enjoy doing evil; he has ....
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