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Peer Pressure In Macbeth

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"Your unwillingness to trust the right person, will create more losses in your life, than the losses of trusting the wrong person"- Johnny Braden
Introduction
Today, most people experience peer pressure and / or being told a white lie at least one time during their life. Peer pressure and false information can lead people for the best or sometimes for the worst. This paper will examine how William Shakespeare's play, " The Tragedy of Macbeth" shines the light how a person's morals and character can change due to the influences of others." You will witness how Macbeth's character degenerates as the play goes on. Due to these factors, Macbeth's faith ultimately lend itself to his defeat in the play, "Tragedy of Macbeth."
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Even, decieving a person is wrongful too. In the play, "The Tragedy of Macbeth" the witches use apparitions to decive Macbeth.By the witches' apparitions, it leads Macbeth to believe lies. One of the apparitions is an armed head. The armed head represents symbolically Macbeth's head cut off and brought to Malcolm by Macduff. This apparition is suppose to warn Macbeth that an enemy who constitues a threat no so much at Macbeth's life as their crown. But unfortunatly, Macbeth sees this diferently.He believes it's a prefigure of the warlike siward. So, He thinks nothing of it because he commonly goes to war. So, Macbeth acts nonchanlant about it. Another apparition that Macbeth mistakes is the bloody child. The bloody child symboically represents Macduff whom is to lead insurrection against his rule. But, Macbeth believes that it represents symboically that no man born of woman can kill him. So, as he enters war he hallucinates and thinks he is an immortal. Macbeth becomes over confident and has bad judgement during the war from the bloody child apparition that he puts his soldiers and himself in danger.From this it reveals how a small misunderstanding can take over one's mind.
Critics' Opinion According to journal, William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Several critics beliveves that Shakespeare's task in writting the play, "The Tragedy of Macbeth is extremely problematic. The play has a plot that is quite troublesome

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