MacBeth3

             Even though people in retributive justice feel satisfaction, the perpetrator can also suffer.
             William Shakespeare's powerful Macbeth shows the deterioration of an honourable and
             respectable general, Macbeth, who becomes a tragic hero after temptations from the witches and his wife to
             Macbeth soliloquies enable the audience to experience the conflict within Macbeth and thus, gain
             an understanding of the reasons for his behavior and decisions. As a result, the tremendous reversal of
             Macbeth's fortunes in the end leaves the audience filled not with pity, but also awe, at the realization that
             Macbeth's soliloquies before the murder of Duncan shows the vigorous internal struggle of
             himself, as his conscience is fighting against his evil minds. Also, they shows Macbeth has brought his own
             downfall upon himself. The audience will then feel pity about Macbeth's deterioration brought by himself
             when witnessing his choice of following the evil.
             Macbeth is a courageous and honourable general in Scotland. His success in the battle against the
             invaders of Scotland gains respect from the King Duncan and his fellow soldiers. However, the demonic
             forces, symbolized by three witches, temptates Macbeth. The witches hail Macbeth as the Thane of Glamis
             and Cawdor who will be king and hail Banquo, who is a nobleman of Scotland and Macbeth's friend, as
             one who will become the father of a line of kings. Macbeth ambition deep in his heart starts growing at that
             time. In Act I, scene iii, when Macbeth is thinking about the fulfillment of the two prophecies given by the
             witches before, "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes my single state of man"(I, iii, 139-
             140) In this soliloquy, Macbeth reflects his idea about the "two tr
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