Despair In Macbeth

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Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are a moiety of evil and despair. Her views are the same as Macbeth’s in the way that they both strive for power and hunger to watch the world bow down to them. In some aspects she is even more evil than our famed antagonist, Macbeth. They both devise a plan to overthrow King Duncan and frame his servants for the crime. Macbeth shows a slight hint of good, however his cold-blooded wife turns his face from the light and they delve back into the darkness which is the murder of a fair king. Even after the king has been killed by Macbeth he almost shows remorse and then his wife reminds him that he will be king and he forgets his immediately lost sorrow; a false sorrow. He has all the qualities of a villain; he is treacherous,

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