How Does Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth Relate to the Rest of the Play?

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How Does Act 1 Scene 3 of Macbeth Relate to the Rest of the Play?

Macbeth is one of the famous plays written by William Shakespeare in Elizabethan times. He took the basic story from The Chronicles of Scotland, a history book by Raphael Holinshed, but he made a lot of changes in it. In real life Banquo was guilty, but since he was an ancestor of James I, therefore Shakespeare made him innocent in the play.

In the 16th century, due to ignorance, the people of England and Scotland believed in God and the Devil, in heaven and hell, supernatural things including Black Magic. They also believed in evil spirits, in possession by spirits and in the power of witchcraft. Women didn’t have any rights in these times. If they were clever and mentally strong they were considered to be witches.

        This is a description of how a physically brave, loyal but ambitious and suggestible man murders to gain the throne of Scotland and is then obliged to continue murdering in order to preserve and maintain his position and authority. Ultimately when his murderous past is discovered, he dies as violently as he had lived.

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In act 1, scene 2, Shakespeare represent Macbeth as a good fighter a brave, strong soldier. He was compared to the lion. Macbeth is a powerful and loyal man, however as the story progresses he displays his mental weakness especially as Lady Macbeth can easily influence him. I would call him a greedy person, because he always wants more and more and will do anything to satisfy his ambitious nature. The fact that Macbeth gets his title from someone who had been a traitor foreshadows that this will also happen to him.

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