Macbeth - Charting His Downfall
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This is my account of Macbeth’s downfall from a popular, successful soldier, quote "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won", who has received great honours for his loyalty, his courage, his bravery and his nobility. At the end of the play the only respect he has is because of the fea ....
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.... is yet but fantastical."
We can see that his mind is confused and distorted, because of what has happened and what may happen, and here we see the first signs of ambition, even though it is dismissed.
"My thought ……. // Shakes so my single state of man."
The second soliloquy is in Act I, Scene IV, when the Thane of Cawdor has been killed. Duncan describes him as ‘a man on whom I built an absolute trust’. This parallels Macbeth, who he trusts, when he betrays hi ....
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