Violence And Violence In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

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When reading the play Macbeth I saw very closely on how he reacted to his wife and I do not think that he would have killed the king if his wife told him to do so. He was a very kind man and always want to do what was best for others yes he wanted to be king but he wanted to be king the right way he was very apprehensive on agreeing to kill the king. He says in Act 1 scene 7 line 7 -11 "but for crimes like these they're still punishment in the world. By committing violent crimes which each of the people to commit violence and violence of our students who come back to plague us teachers” Then he listened to his wife and she said that he wasn't a man if he did this( Act 1 scene 7 page 2 line 48). She basically kept saying that he couldn't

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