Macbeth, an insight

             Macbeth has always been recognised as the villain or the tragic hero in the Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth. If evidence in the play was more easily deciphered by the average reader, Macbeth really is a good person being grossly misunderstood. In fact, Duncan's murder is only failure to act in a politically astute manner.
             Duncan is a good kill as presented in the Shakespearean play, Macbeth. Macbeth, as the thane of Cawdor would naturally succeed him in a vote because of his rank and reputation in that part of the play.
             Ross: "(act one, scene four) ...he bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor. In which addition, hail, most worthy Thane, for it is thine."
             With this new position, he looks forward to Kingship after the death of King Duncan for the strongest of the thanes will become King (because after Duncan's death, Macbeth was chosen to be king). Instead of letting normal procedure of tanistry (Selection of the Scottish king by a vote among the thanes) to take its course, Duncan pronounces an heir to his throne. In doing so, a drastic change in politics has occurred for every thane's ultimate goal is to be king.
             Even Macbeth has contemplated it, when the time and place was not ripe. Lady Macbeth: "(Act one, Scene seven), what beast was't, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. Nor time nor place did then adhere, an yet you would make both: (Contemplated when he wasn't in a good situation to kill Duncan but he promised to make it happen) they have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you."
             Not only are the thanes cut out of the contention to be king, the next king may not even have the ability to govern the nation. Tanistry usually allows for better rulers, because the best or the most cunning was chosen to be king. This method of ele
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