Macbeth - Authority
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"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself" (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin), this quote applies to the play, Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth kills the respected King Duncan so that he can be king. However, during his rule, Macbeth demonstrates that he is incapable of mastering the power and ....
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.... execution,
... Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements (act I, scene, ii, lines 17- 23).
In his speech, the Captain describes Macbeth's violence to indicate what a good warrior he is thus showing that he has respect for Macbeth. Once Macbeth became king, he became overpowered with keeping his authority. Macbeth realized that he was being used just so that Banquo's sons can inherit the throne:
They hailed him father to a line of kings.
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