Meaning behind the word Golgotha in Macbeth

In act one scene two of Macbeth the injured Sergeant conveys his story of the events of the battle between Macbeth and Macdonwald. In saying so he compares the bloody fight to that of Golgotha. Now Golgotha was the mountain in which Jesus of Nazareth was said to have been crucified in 30 CE. This meaning that the Sergeant was comparing the battle between Macbeth and Macdonwald to that of the horrors and violence of Crucifixion as portrayed in the Gospels of the New Testament.

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