... all our days are passed away in thy wrath; we spend our gears as a tale that is told."(Psalms 90:8) and "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity."(Ecclesiastes 12:8) to display Macbeth's deep mentality. It was important to show the literary value. When Macbeth heard the news of his wife's death, he was indifferent. The bloody road had ... in his plays; this argues for his close knowledge of Scripture. The books he seems to have known most thoroughly, even in places by heart, are Genesis, Job, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Matthew, Luke, and Romans. In his use of them he does n...

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... , or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again." And in Ecclesiastes 8:11 we see why it has not been as effective of a deterrent as it could be if it was implemented in all states and execution shortly after conviction. The verse ... ...

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