Malcolm's final description of the macbeths is "butcher and his fiend-like queen". Do you agree with this? The point of view i took was that i disagreed with malcolm

Macbeth Essay Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth behave in ways that make them appear both butcher and fiend, the complexity of their characterisation and the audience's pity for them makes them appear redeemed by the end of the play. Malcolm's reference to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth tells the audience how he suffered at their united hands. Whilst the audience feels able to sympathise with him, they have also followed Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's change and …

…choices, finally redeeming himself to earn the audience's pity; Lady Macbeth, appearing brutal and violent, but aware of her own flaws and weaknesses as a woman, eventually driven mad by her guilt from her actions, and again, gaining the audience's pity and compassion through her madness and consequent suicide. Shakespeare has created two deep characters that are still able to be related to in the present day, could a fiend and a butcher manage that?