Macbeth Is a Dead Butcher and His Fiend Like Queen.

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MACBETH IS A DEAD BUTCHER AND HIS FIEND LIKE QUEEN

In most ways I disagree with Malcolm’s speech concerning Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. He says that Macbeth is a dead like butcher and Lady Macbeth is his fiend like queen. During the play, we can get various examples which prove that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are kind people. However, there is also some evidence which suggest they aren’t.

It is unfair for Malcolm to describe them as "this dead butcher and his fiend - like queen". In the beginning they are respected people who share a loving relationship. As I pointed out in my speech, their downfall is by the witches' prophecy, and not because they are evil. Macbeth's indecision on whether or not to kill Duncan, and Lady Macbeth's begging of the spirits to take away her feminine qualities, show that ruthlessness does not come easily to them.

 He is well respected, and after his deed of braveness at the battle, Duncan thought he was worthy to receive the title of Thane of Cawdor, which is a huge honour to Macbeth. The problem with this, though, is that it helps to spark his ambition.

Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth deserves to be King, but thinks that he is too nice to do anything about it. She does not think that he could kill Duncan on his own. She pleads with the Spirits to take away her tenderness and femininity and make her ruthless: " Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top full of direst cruelty." This evidence on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth proves that, at the beginning of the play, they are both good, people.

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When the witches predict that he shall be king, Macbeth does not think that he should do anything about making the prophecy come true: "If Chance will have me king, why Chance may crown me without my stir." However, when King Duncan places an extra obstacle in his way by naming his son, Malcolm, as his successor, Macbeth realises that, if he is to be king, then he must kill Duncan: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap. Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep ...

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