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Examples Of Evil In Macbeth

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Shakespeare shows that If you do something unnatural, you will get harmed in return. Just like when Macbeth kills Duncan, Ross and an old man converse about unnatural, strange things happening, which seem to coincide with what Macbeth did.

One example that shakespeare shows that if you do something unnatural, or an act of evilness, you will get harmed in return is when After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth struggles terribly with his guilt. He worries that he could not pronounce the holy word, "Amen," when one of Duncan's chamberlains said, "God bless us" (2.2.39, 2.2.40). Later, he hears a voice cry out that he will never be able to sleep peacefully again because he murdered Duncan while he was asleep and powerless. In fact, Macbeth is so guilty that he mistakenly brings the murder weapons with him from the room, and when Lady Macbeth orders him to return them, he cannot. He says, "I'll go no more. / I am afraid to …show more content…

Macbeth becomes obsessed with this fate, and under the influence of his power-hungry wife, Lady Macbeth, he speeds up his fate by murdering the king. “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (1.1.12-13) Throughout the play, what’s good is bad and what’s bad is good to the characters in the story. The characters are misleading because of their foul personalities. However, the appearances of the characters are good, but hide the foul personalities. So when the witches say what is fair is foul and what is four is fair relates to the witches and also the other characters in Macbeth. In the start of the play Macbeth was a natural person in his way of thinking, and that he would regret murdering duncan to become king because he knows it is not right. But since Lady macbeth and the witches are unnatural beings, they want to keep Macbeth being far from

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