Consequences Of Macbeth In William Shakespeare's Play

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In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there has been various places where the characters grow and develop either in a positive or negative ways that affects the consequences that they would face. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is introduced as this great soldier that has just come back from war; he wasn’t greedy and vicious, wanting to become the King or Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth was pretty loyal to the King, but then in Act 1 scene s, the Macbeth meets the witches who then tells him that there are prophecies of him becoming the King. At first when Macbeth first met the witches, he was not bloodthirsty for the wealth, to sek the impressive spot of being king… he actually thought he was going crazy, but when the witches revealed that he was going

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