Macbeth Civil War Analysis

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During the Civil war, I had been at constant unease because of the horrors that had undergone. I am against killing and the war had defied all good in nature when Macdonwald “showed like the rebel’s whore” (I.ii.17) and led an army force with the Thane of Cawdor to revolt against the King. Though I know that our country had been so fearless when Macdonwald, “worthy to be a rebel” (I.ii.12), went against the order of things and we were able to bring that back around and return that natural order. Duncan’s own force, that included my husband, came along to defeat rebels. During this war, Macbeth fought as if he was a “cannon overcharged with double cracks” (I.ii.41) and as things began to seem like it was closing, “the Norwegian lord, surveying …show more content…
My husband, as a soldier, proved his strength through this fight. Not tired from the previous fight as a result of having a new rush of adrenaline from this new conflict and Macbeth continued to callously fight. The whole time I was listening to the thundering of canons and waiting anxiously for his return home. Praying that my husband would not go to crazy lengths and hurt himself, though now i realize that it should not have been his own safety that i should have been worried about, but rather the safety of the people who crossed him. Macbeth, being a “valiant cousin, [and a] worthy gentleman” (I.ii.26) had “smoked with bloody execution” (I.ii.20) and killed the trespassers in a horrific manner. Macdonwald himself was “unseamed... from the nave to th’ chops, and [had] his head upon our battlements” (I.ii.24-25) by the one and only, Macbeth. I could not fathom what my husband was trying to prove, he seemed far from being any sort of a sane person. I can only come to the conclusion that Macbeth had enjoyed killing people, enough to kill in a manner that gave him a sense of and
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