How Is Medicine: Helpful Or Harmful In Macbeth?

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“ Cure her of that, canst thou not minister to a mind diseased. Pluck the memory of a rooted sarrow” ( citation ). In Macbeth, Medicine is being brought up to cure his wife of her sleeping in the story, due to the fact that she is feeling mad guilt over the fact she made and knows about Macbeth dirty doing, his first choice is to have the doctor curing Lady Macbeth with medicine, nothing else but that it seems. You would think Macbeth would of gone crazy and helped out his wife or to turn himself in so his wife didn’t have to go threw so much guilt. Pharmaceuticals are used as our first source of help weather that be for sleep, pain, high, or just to take to be noticed, they are abused by humans and they effect out society within out economy

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