Betrayal must and should never happen to anyone for if it does happen there shall be consequences. Macbeth learns throughout the play that there are consequences to everything you do. Macbeth is a play that features a man who is supposedly a very manly figure and is loyal, but soon his loyalty and manly pride is about to be put to the test. Will he be able to remain a loyal man or will he betray his peers and face the consequences? William Shakespeare says that betraying another person may result into a high consequence that you may have to suffer for all the things you have done to others. Macbeth shows many betrayals happening towards one another, These betrayals will affect how the characters will react and what they will do. A civil war has broken out in Scotland, rebels against the royal army. The king has been betrayed by the rebel leader, this causes the rebel leader to die in the hands of Macbeth as for his consequence, but little does the king know, another man has betrayed him. The Thane of cawdor gives out the position of the royal army and Norway comes to try to take over Scotland. The king is furious of this betrayal and decides to do something about it, “no more that thane of cawdor shall deceive our interest.”(I.ii.73). The King sends a search for the Thane of cawdor and sentences him to death for his betrayal. The consequences that both the man had to suffer was death due to their betrayal of the king, for if they had not betrayed the king then they would