Structure Of Government In Macbeth

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From the very beggining of the play, Shakespeare introduces the way the government is structured. The way the government is organized in Macbeth is as follows: the king stands at the top of the pyramid, later comes the nobles, or as they are refered as in the play, thanes, and below them goes the rest of the people. Shakespeare, of course, concentrates on demonstating how much power each person has and how the King is the one with the most authority. However, as the play proceeds, it is discovered that the nobles in fact hold more power than the King actually does. The reason for this would be that nobles are wealthy men that own land and can support the country economically, what in fact the King cannot do on his own. This aslo would explain

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