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With “help” from the witches, Lady Macbeth and his own character flaws, Macbeth discards his moral code for Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare introduces Macbeth by making a scene where a captain at war acclaims Macbeth to Duncan. The captain describes Macbeth as a man that “ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him/Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops/And fixed his head upon our battlement.” (I,ii,23-25) Macbeth is likely to be a bloodthirsty monster at war, but does he really have what it takes to kill his loyal king?
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