Basically the captains report is depicting Macbeth as a really great guy, ‘brave macbeth’, ‘valours minion’, it makes the audience want to like him. It also sets him up nice and high to make his downfall more drastic.
Paradox is a literary device used to describe Shakespeare's work because "Shakespeare's life is a contradiction"
A paradox is a figure of speech which occurs when a statement appears to contradict itself. The contradictory statement can be described as paradoxical.
Thus, t also sets him up nice and high to make his downfall more drastic.
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