“This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen” how far has Shakespeare encouraged his audience to agree with Malcolm’s statement at the end of the play?

... "This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" how far has Shakespeare encouraged his audience to agree with Malcolm's statement at the end of the play? In the final scene of the play, we hear Malcolm's feeling towards Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Malcolm describes Macbeth as a butcher and Lady Macbeth as a devil. Malcolm feelings in the final scene may be biased as he feels that Macbeth killed his father for no reason. The audience in this play have been able to hear Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's soliloquies, and have followed their action thought out the play. This has helped the audience to identify and understand why they have done what they have done. We have to look closely at Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to see how far Shakespeare has encouraged the statement made by Malcolm in the play. Macbeth is compared to a butcher. A butcher cuts up animals with no

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