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'A dead butcher and his fiend-like queen' how satisfactory do you find Malcom's condemnation of Macbeth and his wifeThe above quote comes from the end of the play, after Macduff brings in the severed head of Macbeth. Before we can analyse the quote we should first find the definition of 'fiend' and 'butcher'. The word fiend according to the Oxford Dictionary means "The Devil; evil spirit; person of superhuman wickedness (esp. cruelty or malignity)",The play is about a leader of men who is portrayed as a loyal, honest and trust worthy person who turns against his own king in a bid to rule the country. I believe the three witches have led him to this decision. The word butcher has two meanings. According to the dictionary the word butcher means "One who slaughters animals for food, dealer in meat or a person who causes or delights in bloodshed." Although Macbeth doesn't slaughter animals for food, he still gains from murdering somebody, like a butcher. A butcher kills animals for gain, in his case to make money. Macbeth also gains from killing, by killing Duncan and Banquo he receives and keeps his position of king. I do not believe that Macbeth however is delighted by bloodshed although he does cause it. Does this make Macbeth
The main question we need to ask is who is the real Macbeth? Is it the Macbeth we know at the beginning of the play who is a 'loyal kinsman' to his King, or the cruel 'butcher' we know at the end. I am afraid to think what I have done;Look on't again I dare not. She believes that Macbeth deserves to be King, but thinks that he is too nice to do anything about it. "Later on we find out that Macduff was 'from his mother's womb, untimely ripped' and Macbeth realises that the three witches prophesy is correct, and he is going to be killed by Macduff. The cutting from the nave to the chops is a very bloody horrifying image. Because of this I do not think the first part of Malcolm's condemnation is correct. After hearing this Macbeth doesn't throw the suggestion immediately away, instead he asks for them to 'tell him more'. When Macbeth goes into Duncan's room after the murder, he seems very tense and suspicious, Lady Macbeth tries to take away the focus of attention of Macbeth and faints, to try to protect him. If he were, his kinship and duty to the king would offer no obstacle to his decision to murder him. When Macbeth kills Duncan, his hand's are covered with blood, and she supports him by saying a 'little water will clear us of this deed'. His first thoughts considering murdering Duncan appear, which scare him, as he for previous parts of his life has always stood by and supported the King, and for the first time ever his ambition has lead him to contemplate the murder of his King, and in the sixteenth century, first came your God, then your King. "Macbeth wishes to wash his hands of Duncan's blood, and thus the deed, but believes that no amount of water could remove all the blood;" Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No,"He regrets killing Duncan, wishing that he would wake from his sleep of death:"Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!".
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