Power
In Macbeth
Power can be used for good or bad.
Power Used for Good
"So clear in his great office..."
Act I; Scene VII
- Duncan has been a fair and just king
- Used his power to benefit Scotland
"Before we reckon with your several loves, and make us even with you..."
Act V; Scene VIII
- Malcolm is planning to use his power to bring Scotland back together
Power Used for Bad
"... A swift blessing may soon return to this our suffering country under a hand accursed!"
Act III; Scene VI
- Now that Macbeth is king he is not using his power to help the people of Scotland
- Instead the country is suffering
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? ... The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? ... I tell you yet again, Banquo's burried."
Act V; Scene I
- Lady is confessing to what she and Macbeth did
- Abused their power to take out people who got in their way