Shakes spear uses the metaphor of diseases to describe the effect Macbeth has on Scotland how far is Mcduff the antidote.

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Shakes spear uses the metaphor of diseases to describe the effect Macbeth has on Scotland how far is Mcduff the antidote.

The metaphor of disease occurs towards the end of the play in act 5 scene 3 when Macbeth asks the doctor if he can cure his wife and asks for some, “sweet oblivious antidote” for him. The country is diseased; Macbeth acknowledges this when he asks:

“If thou couldst, doctor, cast the water of my land, find her diseas, and parge it to a sound and pristine health”.

Here Macbeth is asking for a medicine to cure the disease he has put on the country.

The disease referred to in the question is the blood murderous regime that Macbeth has carried out since killing Duncan. Lady Macbeth has became mad and this follows Macbeths latest outrage; the killing of Macduffs wife and children. Lady Macbeth early in the play considered that although Macbeth was ambitious he laked,”the illness should attend it”, in there word he was not sufficiently sick in the mind to murder to be the king.

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However Macbeth was used to killing .He was described as cutting a man open.”Unseamed him from the nave to the chops”. Macbeth had a history of violence, but when this was used against the king and other nobles its was seen as evil.

The witch’s predictions that Macbeth would be king can be seen as supernatural intervention, however, witches are evil and should be avoided and as Banquo said “the instrument of darkness tell us truths to betray”.

In deepest consequences. In other word the witches told Macbeth he was there condor in the hope that Macbeth ...

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