Shakespeare's insight into the theme of the difference between kingship and tyranny is widely explored in the tragic play, Macbeth. The theme exhibits the power of good vs evil through the play and the author interprets the good in King Duncan who shows kingship whereas the evil Macbeth shows tyranny in the kingdom. For instance, “Bring forth men-children only … of his own chamber and used their very daggers. That they have done’t?” (1.7. 80-85) Macbeth takes over the throne representing the symbol of a tyrant king. Secondly, at the start of the play, the three witches prophesied that “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (1.1. 11) The interpretation of the prophecy is that fair can be foul and foul can be fair and the prophecy implies later in
