Macbeth

Macbeth Greed of One Man At the end of the play, Malcolm refers to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as: “Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen” (Act V Scene VII line 69), consider the accuracy of Malcolm's judgment by reference to their speeches and actions throughout the play. In Malcolm's eyes, Macbeth is just a tyrannical murderer who snatched the throne away from him and his father and reigned a rule of terror in all of Scotland. 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 not totally renounced the idea of morality, although it is apparent that his ambition is stronger than his conscience. At first, Macbeth had the itch to be king, but he did not have the will to scratch it. We can see that Macbeth is not a cold-blooded monster in that the very idea of killing Duncan horrifies him, and in Act II he tries to tell Lady Macbeth that he will not go through with the murder. The character of Lady Macbeth is therefore required to provide Macbeth with the extra will power to macbeth, murder, lady, shakespeare, act, seems, crown, nothing, about, tomorrow, serve, scene, says, rule, play, out, mind, macduff, idea, crimes, banquo's, ambition, witches, violence, tries, totally, tormented, torment, time, throughout, therefore, taken, since, provide, own, order, one