... , opinions expressed by individual characters are critical to our understanding of the drama. In the final scene Malcolm, heir to the throne, refers to Macbeth and his wife as "the butcher and his fiend like queen". I partially agree with the claim hat Macbeth is a butcher but I believe that it is an injustice to describe him only as a butcher because he does have a conscience. With regard to Lady ... who is browbeaten in Act 1 scene 5 by Lady Macbeth into murdering Duncan. In this scene he thinks for himself about the pointlessness of life. He concludes that life is "a tale told by an ...

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... self-knowledge? Self-knowledge is having an understanding of oneself, as well as ones abilities and goals. Macbeth possessed self-knowledge during the beginning scenes of the play. However, his self-knowledge began to diminish due to his wife, the witches and the apparitions. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erlaps itself and falls on th' other." (I.vii ... has come to realization of all he has done and what he has become. He now has a sense of self knowledge. "Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that str...

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