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It has been said of Macbeth Himself that “Within his own soul, his Chain of Murders Diminishes him until he reaches the hell of his own Creation”. To what extent is this true. At the start of the play, Macbeth, a respectable Lord is a very honourable man. He starts the play as the Thane of Glamis, and is soon made the Thane of Cawdor also. He is described as ‘brave friend’ and ‘worthy gentleman’. He is said to be a ‘lion’ and an ‘eagle’ by the captain (I, ii, l.35). Despite all the compliments that he gets from the lords and even the king, there is symbolism that he has the potential to be a very bloody person. When he kills the treacherous Thane of Cawdor, not by simply stabbing him with his sword, but he ‘unseamed him from the knave to the chops’ (I, ii, l.22). He is already associated with blood and death as his sword ‘which smoked with bloody execution’ (I, ii, l.18). This is a very powerful statement as he is to kill many more people throughout the course of the book, men, women and children too. This sort of execution could quite easily be described as ‘bloody execution’ as it is done out of cold blood. There is also a link with Hell, even at this early stage of the play. The Captain makes a connection between
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Approximate Word count = 2210
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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