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“Macbeth deserved to die because he was totally responsible for the betraying the Scottish king, Duncan, and the Scottish people”. Write an analytical essay in which you explore the forces behind Macbeth’s murdering ways. Macbeth deserved to die ....

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.... to murder Duncan, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man” (Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene vii). She appealed to Macbeth’s “vaulting ambition” so as to intensify the effect that the Witches’ prophecies had on him, “Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter” (Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene v). She convinced Macbeth that the rewards of the murder would far outweigh the drawbacks and clear their conscience, “A little water clears us of this deed” (Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene ii). Although Macbet ....