Macduff's Violence: The Vicious Cycle Of Violence

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While Malcolm wants to take a little break to weep for his father’s death, Macduff wants to avenge his father’s death showing the vicious cycle of violence in this story and how it never gets resolved it just gets transferred. This quote is basically a foreshadowing of Macbeth’s death and sense he killed Duncan he has now changed his faith and instead of becoming king he is now going to die just like his father and Duncan allowing the cycle to strive. This can be interpreted in our modern society and how we react to violence such attacks like pearl harbor or 9/11, people who attack our loves ones and we barley give time to for grief we just attack and create a bigger attack with the Hiroshima attack and thousands of people dieing in afagnistan

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