"When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors." In the story Macbeth by William Shakespeare this was a basic theme of the book, as Macbeth was faced with many very hard choices and dealt with a lot of pressure from people around him. He soon began to be so obsessed with power that he began to go insane. Macbeth had a difficult and troubling process to gain the power he wanted. He also began to take down other people with him, like his wife who went crazy and eventually killed herself. In this story the best quote is "so foul and fair a day I have not seen." This quote means that everyday even though there is a lot of bad there are also in the world at the same time. Overall Macbeth had many fatal flaws and didn't succeed in his power struggle and many people he crossed turned out to be his downfall.
In the beginning, Macbeth was a General in the Scottish army who was loved by the people and was already a Thane. When he met the weird sisters they prophesied that he......
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