... inverted. The goodly Duncan and other innocents are murdered so that he can gain safe passage to the throne - and keep it. But this is not all that the play is concerned with. Macbeth's weaknesses as a man are played on by the 'supernatural soliciting' of the three witches, and he falls victim to his wife's coaxing, showing he is more than ... conceives, and the utter desolation they cause is the evidence of this. Despite these facts, Macbeth and his wife cannot rationalise their heinous deeds with any sense of logic. Ominously, Shakespeare opens the play in 'thunder and light...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate