illing a traitor to the king, Macdonwald, “For brave Macbeth,-well he deserves that name,-/Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel/…Carv’d out his passage till he fac’d the slave;/And…/Unseam’d him from the nave to the chops” (Shakespeare 1045).
In the above passage, we see Macbeth possesses the values of bravery and loyalty in his duties to the king as well as seeing one of the most violently depicted murders in all of Shakespeare. The flames of the values of loyalty and duty to others will soon be extinguished in Macbeth as his vaulting greed and ambition “o’erleap” themselves and land on any of his more noble fires, quashing them completely. In a similar way, John Gotti rose within the ranks of the Mafia by being brave and loyal in his duties to the reigning mob bosses as one of their capos, or hit men. He was as brave, loyal and violent as Macbeth in his duties to Duncan
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