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In this excerpt from act IV of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, identify the biblical allusions.

I put dashes next to the choices. There can be more than one.

Please and thank you.

MALCOLM:

What I believe, I'll wail;

What know, believe; and what I can redress,

As I shall find the time to friend, I will.

What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.

--This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,

Was once thought honest: you have loved him well;--

He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young; but something

You may deserve of him through me; and wisdom

--To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb

To appease an angry god.--

MACDUFF:

I am not treacherous.

MALCOLM: But Macbeth is.

--A good and virtuous nature may recoil

In an imperial charge.-- But I shall crave your pardon;

That which you are, my thoughts cannot transpose;

--Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell:--

--Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,--

Yet grace must still look so.

MACDUFF:

I have lost my hopes.

In Biblical times, specifically in the Old Testament, animals were sacrificed in order to ask for forgivenes and end the punishment of God. The animals that were sacrificed were usually lambs, and they needed to be male, first born and flawless. In this case, Macbeth would be the God whose anger needs to be calmed.

(B) "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell:"

Originally, Satan was the brightest angel in heaven, that's why he was called Lucifer -the carrier of light- until one day he rebelled against God. This is known as "the fall", he went to Hell along with other fallen angels. Bear in mind that at the very beginning of Macbeth, he is a very positive character, he is corageous and honorable,even King Duncan trusts him, the latter would have never expected Macbeth to kill him. To sum up, it can be said that Macbeth is like Satan because he rebelled against the King who represented God on earth in Elizabethan times.