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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 r ....

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.... 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 him. Duncan pronounces his son as the prince of Cumberland and the heir to the throne. This throws Macbeth’s mind into even more confusion, as this is a ‘step which (he) must o’er-leap. He also, in the soli ....