{"id": "card_n_a76aedf29b6b", "kind": "note", "title": "Macbeth", "body": "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.\n\nFailure mode: Treating a prophecy of future possibility as a license for present violence.\n\nRestoration path: None taken; refused the door of guilt back to honest confession.\n\nMarkers: entrusted with hospitality; prophecy interpreted as warrant; wife as accelerator; one murder requires the next; fights to the end inside his own delusion\n\n— Macbeth, Shakespeare, Macbeth (Literature)", "source": {"label": "Archetype — Literature", "url": "", "ref": "Shakespeare, Macbeth", "authority_tier": "reference"}, "shelf": "reference", "box": "archetypes", "bands": ["archetype", "betrayer", "literature"], "connections": [], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "secular", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "763a44b0a815a4505a87428f041931f23d0cbcc6b1a2677ad8a0815a7e868a6c"}