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What do you think Macbeth means when he says,” Things bad

begun make strong themselves by ill.”?

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When Macbeth says that "Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill" he suggests that prior bad acts beget even worse acts when prompted by an evil nature. Macbeth has already begun his string of bad acts with the murder of King Duncan.
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