Macbeth

Loyal warrior visited by witches with a prophecy; pushed by his wife to seize the kingdom by murdering the trusting king under his own roof; one murder forces the next, then the next; sleep murdered, friends suspicious; fall on the field still trying to outwit a prophecy. Failure mode: Treating a prophecy of future possibility as a license for present violence. Restoration path: None taken; refused the door of guilt back to honest confession. Markers: entrusted with hospitality; prophecy interpreted as warrant; wife as accelerator; one murder requires the next; fights to the end inside his own delusion — Macbeth, Shakespeare, Macbeth (Literature)