What’s more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8. Malcolm in his final speech at the end of the play ushers in the beginning of a new era after the fall of Macbeth. The rightful heir to the throne promises to call home all those who fled Macbeth’s tyranny. He also commits to finding those cruel attendants who helped the “butcher” Macbeth and his “fiend-like” queen. Good has triumphed over evil. In “fled the snares of watchful tyranny” we see an example of metaphor (“snares”) and personification (“watchful tyranny”)