Power, Authority And Corruptio
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n in Macbeth
"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself " [Leninthis, 271], this quotation applies to Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth commits regicide; the most heinous of all crimes in Elizabethan times, in order to become king himself. However, during his rule, Macbet ....
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.... battle. During a conversation between Duncan and a soldier, the soldier describes how Macbeth brutally slew the rebel Macdonwald:
"Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion carved out his passage…
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements" [Macbeth, I, ii, l: 17-23, p.13].
In his speech, the soldier describes Macbeth's violence to indicate qualities as a good warrior, thus showing ....
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