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The story of Macbeth

Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:36:45
Category: / Literature
Length: 1 pages (289 words)
Two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo, while riding home after a victorious battle against an army of rebels, are met by three witches. These foretell that Macbeth shall be King of Scotland and Banqou, the father of many kings. Macbeth is strongly influenced by their words and his wife gives him so much encouragement, that he is persuadedto murder Duncan, the king of Scotland, while he is a guest at their castle. Macbeth is now …
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…while a force is led by Duncan's son, Malcolm, and with English support, destroys Macbeth's castle. The King realizes that his position is desperate but, he never looses courage. Even when he finds that the witches have deceived him and is killed in hand-to-hand fighting by Macduff, who says that he was not born of woman but torn from his mother's womb. Malcolm now becomes what he was always meant to be...King of Scotland.
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