How do Malcolm's speeches put Macbeth's actions into perspective?This is in act 4 scene 3. I'm not too sure about this one.

Malcolm is discussing Macbeth's actions (including the
murder of Macduff's family) with Macduff.  It is important to note that the action of
the play has moved from Scotland to England, where Malcolm has been hiding out since the
murder of King Duncan, his father.

Malcolm does begin the
scene listing all of Macbeth's atrocities and describing the evil elements of his
nature, but then he shifts into listing his own sins, his own evils.  These are all
countered by Macduff as things that would not affect his ability to rule justly as
king.  Finally, Malcolm admits that these "evil" acts of his own that he has listed are
not true acts he has committed and that his only desire to serve his country.  He
says:

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.....Devilish
Macbeth

By many of these trains hath sought to win
me

Into his power,...but God
above

Deal between thee and me.  For even
now

I put myself to thy direction,
and

Unspeak mine own detraction, here
abjure

For strangers to my nature....[W]hat I am
truly

Is thine and my poor country's to
command.

So, he places
himself in Macduff's hands and commits himself to the good of Scotland, to serve his
people and country as King.

I am not sure either how this
exactly puts "Macbeth's actions into perspective," except that though Macbeth's crimes
have been many, Malcolm doesn't see him as some sort of devil incarnate, but a man with
weaknesses, just as he, Malcolm, has inside him.  The only thing that separates them is
that Macbeth has acted upon the sinful, evil ideas that have come to him, and Malcolm
has refrained.