... justification to have utter contempt for, and to degrade Macbeth as 'smacking of every sin that has a name'. Indeed, as Hecate points out earlier, he is certainly 'a wayward son', who 'spiteful, and wrathful loves for his own ends', a man capable of propagating a series of crimes so hideous that the Natural Order is inverted. The goodly Duncan and other ... ;the very firstlings of [his] heart shall be the firstlings of [his] hand', he sends others to complete the dirty deeds of killing Banquo, attempting the murder of Fleance his son, and he orchestrates Lady MacDuff's fam...

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... with his friend Banquo. He wanted to protect his ambition, by killing the king, and now he killed Banquo, due to the prediction of what the witches said about Banquo's son becoming the king. Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his ambition without problems. Macbeth, who now no longer needed any encouragement from Lady Macbeth, started to leave her ... completely deprive him of his rational nature, which is the root of his inescapable inclination to virtue. We do not need Hecate to tell us that he is but a wayward son, spiteful and wrathful, who, as other do, loves for his own e...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... reader feels for Macbeth, despite him having just killed the king. Another example is when Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo after sending three murderers to kill Banquo and his son. Macbeth has to be clamed down by Lady Macbeth in front of all the Scottish lords. Yet Macbeth still says, "It will have blood, they say: blood will have ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate