Friday, November 8, 2013
Macbeth-ish Acts (Idk what the actual title of this is???)
So, if I were in a position where I was pretty well off but was told I could have even more if I only killed a couple people, including my best friend, and manipulated some people, I would not agree to do it. Like yeah, moving up in the world's awesome and stuff and I am an ambitious person, but I just wouldn't be able to do it. I wouldn't be able to live with myself, knowing what I had done to get to where I was. And what's the point of it all if you only end up despising yourself? I'd pick happy and not being as well off over wealth and self-loathing. Doing what Macbeth did goes against my moral code and I'd probably have a breakdown like he did. In the process of trying to get higher up in life, he lost everything: his best friend, his wife, his position of power, and he even lost himself. Honestly, I think it's sort of stupid that he didn't think he'd be caught. Like come on, if you murder people and do a bunch of really bad things, it's always going to catch up to you and bite you in the butt. So basically the moral of this entry is: don't do Macbeth-ish things, have good karma (what goes around comes around), and don't go around killing people because it's rude.
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I like how you started of this piece off, straight up laying out what Macbeth did. It shows how crazy he is.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is dumb for not recognizing he would be caught. But I think the reasons he fails area little more than this. Macbeth is cocky, and because of this he doesn't believe he will ever be punished for the crimes he commits, not that he won't be caught. Macbeth is told by the witches and Duncan that he is the best warrior in the land and no man of woman born shall harm him. His cockiness is the eventual cause of this downfall.
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