Macbeth
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A struggle is present in every tragedy, as a person tries to overcome their flaws and fit the mold of their ideal. William Shakespeare plainly defined a good man in the play "". This goal by it's definition is a difficult one for any man to achieve. Prudence and logic, temperance and patients, as w ....
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.... as Shakespeare showed a good man never backed down from a foe.
In the later acts of the play, Shakespeare furthered the definition of a good man by portraying what a bad one was not. In Macbeth's darkest hours, he showed no sign of prudence and logic as he slayed king Duncan, and hired assassins to murder his friend Banquo. Macbeth displayed his temerity in act IV scene 1 saying,
"...from this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
The firstlings of my hand. And even now,
To crown ....
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