Independence and Failure Peasants of the early sixteenth century are often pictured carrying a bundle of limbs tied with vines on their backs. This is a perfect metaphor for the events in Macbeth. Macbeth is one of many thanes, or limbs, bundled together. The thanes are united by the king, or the vine. Scotland, or the peasant, carries the bundle by the sweat of his brow. They carry the bundle for fires on cold nights, …showed first 75 words of 1947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1947 total…The universe that struck was more impressive" so he crumbled with lack of strength. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Gove, Philip Babcock. Webster’s Third International Dictionary. Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam, 1967. Johnson, Samuel. The Plays of William Shakespeare. London: J & R Tonson, 1788 Jorgensen, Paul A. Our Naked Frailties. Los Angeles: U of CA, 1971. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Van Doren, Mark. Shakespeare. NY: Doubleday, 1939. Watkins, Ronald. The Theology of Macbeth. Oxford: Oxford University, 1964.