Common Lit.

My Common Place Book

  • 21st November
    2011
  • 21

MALCOLM

    But I have none: the king-becoming graces,
    As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
    Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
    Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
    I have no relish of them, but abound
    In the division of each several crime,
    Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should
    Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
    Uproar the universal peace, confound
    All unity on earth.

Macbeth,William Shakespeare, 4.3. 91-100

Malcolm tricks Macduff into believing that he would be a terrible king and here me makes sure there is no possible way Macduff can say he is fit to be a king. He knows whats makes a tyrant which he a person that lacks human emotion and does not care if there is bloodshed of his own people and basically is calling Macbeth out. It leaves us confused as readers on whether he could be a tyrant king even though he says he’s not that kind of person. It leaves to me to believe if he was given an opportunity like Macbeth, that he too would fall to the same fate.