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Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a construct of

malevolence consequently, due to the martial


society, which lead to his hamartia.
Shakespeare exploits this motif in the extract
through tactile imagery “smoked with blood
execution” the adjective “smoked” could perhaps
convey Macbeths immersion in killing and the lack
of awareness towards the “swarm upon him”. This
explicitly panders the foreshadowing of his
hamartia as before he kills Duncan Shakespeare
utilizes soliloquy “is this a dagger I see before me.”
and this eminently expresses his bloodlust allurance
which inundates him and consequently, evokes him
to committing regicide. Shakespeare undermines
Macbeth as his malpractice of killing the king
deviated him Christian morality and nonetheless,
opposed the great chain of being as the king was
elected by god and killing the king lead to fatal flaw.
Shakespeare further provokes irony into the
Jacobean audience through the metonym of
Macbeth who parallels to the real Macbeth who
killed Duncan I and moreover, went against god.
This employs a ominous tone that the Jacobean
society is deviating from Christian beliefs.
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