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Macbeth Lies Essay

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The Truth Can't be Denied. One who has a “destiny” to be king would do anything to make that happen. Especially when witches tell you your own profile. The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a dramatic play representing the guilty mind of a murderer. The mind of Macbeth is slowly breaking and meeting defeat once the control he tried to maintain slips through his finger. The truth always wins. Once Macbeth fell to his wife's devious mission to become royalty. Shortly after, he followed through with cold blooded murder. Resulting in an instant fear and guilt within Macbeths mind. Macbeth's conscience went straight to disbelief. As soon as Macbeth stabbed king Duncan, his mind corrupted and fell into a gut dropping fear of reality and …show more content…

His main focus was how he wanted his future to be as king. Despite the fact, Macbeth sugar coats the past with derealization. Before that event even happens, convinces himself way before that he is meant to be the true king of “Cumberland”. Driving his mind to do anything for that recognition as king. Macbeth states to himself, “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies, stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires, the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” Macbeth took what the witches predicted seriously and literally. He was already convinced it was meant to be him; he knew exactly how it was going to be true. On that note, events after that were ultimately in Macbeth's intentions. For a person who talks to himself to be crazy, he would kill for the throne. “Fliance his son, that keeps his company, whose absence is no loss of material to me.” (Act III Scene I) Not only did Macbeth hire a hit man for Banquo; he requested that his son Fliance be dead as well. He shows no concern for Fliance’s

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