Macbeth Argumentative Analysis

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Act 5, Scene 8 is the last moment that Macbeth was alive. Macduff lost his whole family by Macbeth so he decided revenge. Macbeth did not care because witches had predicted that he would be died only by a person who was not born woman. However, Macduff revealed that he is the one. Then, he killed Macbeth.
Shakespeare wrote stories for the king, so he might consider stories that the king was able to satisfy. Macbeth killed a king to become the king himself, so it could be that Shakespeare’s king could complain even if Shakespeare let Macbeth be alive. The reason, that Shakespeare decided to kill Macbeth in the story, was for his audience.
On the other hand, general old stories were not written by the specific authors. They were from the public

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