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Examples Of Greed In Macbeth

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Is greed in everyone? When we become extremely greedy it never ends up being positive, Shakespeare's Macbeth does a good job demonstrating how greed leads to someone's corruption or downfall. It starts when Macbeth goes to see the three witches. The witches tell him one day he will be king of Scotland by saying, “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3.53) Here the witches are telling Macbeth his prophecy that’ll come in the future. Then Macbeth starts to get anxious, greedy if you will. He makes a plan to murder the current king, King Duncan, then, after he kills him he plays it off as if it wasn't him. In another real world example, about 27 years ago in 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez shot and killed their parents in their

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