All 4 Uses of
malicious
in
Macbeth
- Fears and scruples shake us:
In the great hand of God I stand; and thence,
Against the undivulged pretense I fight
Of treasonous malice.†p. 71.7malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- We have scotched the snake, not killed it;
She'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth.†p. 93.2
- Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.†p. 93.6
- Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sinp. 143.6 *malicious = wanting to see others suffer
Definition:
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil