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"Infected be the air whereon they ride,/and damned all those that trust them!" What does that quote mean and suggest about Macbeth?
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This is a response Macbeth has to what the witches have told him. He is basically saying that he does not trust their message, namely that he is "damned." Instead he says that those...
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Yet, he has already succomb to their seduction; not only the air has been infected by him, but so has he. In fact, an early definition of "evil" still current during Shakespeare's...
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he's saying he's damned himself.
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