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Macbeth
Hero vs. Villain








In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, starts as a great hero and in the end turn into a murderous villain. Macbeth was a brave and loyal General of the Army of Scotland. He was the great warrior in his country Scotland. Macbeth mercilessly kills his enemies with his sword, and he cuts Macdonwald from his navel to his jaw, as shown in these lines spoken by the Captain, who delivers a report of the war to the King.
For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name –
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;
Which nev’r shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements. (I, ii, 16-24)

Macbeth and Banquo “were as cannons overcharged with double cracks,� they went through the enemy......

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