Derick Marsh, professor emeritus at La Trobe University, observed that Shakespeare's plays, much like life, do not allow readers the delusion of perfect understanding. In his essay “Macbeth: Easy Questions, Difficult Answers”, he addresses the fact that despite his tyranny, Macbeth is still able to attract the reader’s interest, sympathy and even admiration. He argues that Macbeth is “neither the puppet of evil forces that some critics would make him, nor the inhuman monster that Malcolm’s final dismissal of him … would suggest ” (Marsh 3). Instead, he portrays him as an ambitious man who, for want of the greater abundance, respect and affection that accompanies kingship, resolves, against his moral judgement, to deception and murder. Unfortunately
