Macbeth, the power of evil and the evil of power.

Here’s a nice article by the author of the blog “Macbeth, the power of evil and the evil of power. | We dream of things that never were and say: “Why not?”

Paul Alexander Wolf's avatarWe dream of things that never were and say: "Why not?"

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“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays  In deepest consequence”

 
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), Macbeth“, Act 1 scene 3 (
 
 
 
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s  great famous plays and tragedies.   There’s murder, battles and the foreshadow of things going to happen. Macbeth is considered one of Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play entertains in sustained ways the corroding psychological and political effects at a particular time when its leading person, the Scottish lord Macbeth, chooses the deliberate killing of his King Duncan of Scotland, – as the only single way to fulfill his ambition for power. Considering the options  both he and his wife reflected on, this was frankly the most evil choice, – driven only by blind ambition at all costs. It starts…

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