... as being members of either the natural or unnatural world. Through the portrayal of Duncan as a worthy, dedicated and honest man the audience is positioned to perceive him as the divine king that he was. Whereas Macbeth is constructed as a treacherous, usurping traitor who unites the two worlds; disturbing the natural order of the cosmos. Consequently Lady Macbeth is represented as ... the respect of his people. Duncan's character acted in correspondence with the natural order of life in the medieval world whereby one had to rightfully earn their position. Duncan had divine right to the...

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... in no sense from without-though theologians may at will interpret it so-as if some god, like Zeus in Greek tragedy, were dealing out punishment for the breaking of divine law. It is generated rather from within, and it is not merely a psychological phenomenon. Precepts of the natural law-imprints of the eternal law- deposited in his nature have been ... ...

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