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Is Macbeth a moral play?

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                                 Morality play is a dramatized allegory , and the time span of a morality play is one human life. The usual subject of it, is about saving the human soul. The central figure is man in the sense of humanity in general. Morality play contains the forces of good and evil that are engaged in a struggle for the soul of an individual. It spoke  to medieval mans anxiety about being prepared for death or dying well. Many of Shakespeare’s plays seem to have ,through accidentally, a moral significance. This plays appear to preach a moral lesson , evil suffers and good triumphs . The story in MACBETH runs through the narration of evil deeds of the inevitable retribution that follows those evil deeds. But many critics say that Shakespeare diverges from the morality tradition in Macbeth .He is not giving any moral lesson in here but  emphasis sympathetically the h...