Influence Of Power In Macbeth

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Power can influence individuals, because it can cause someone to become power hungry and treat having power as the ultimate thing in life. On the other side people with power can be influenced to become arrogant and abuse their power and use it in a negative way. In the beginning of Macbeth, Macbeth was not looking for the throne until he was influenced by the witches that he should be king. This led Macbeth to become power hungry and eventually kill King Duncan and take the Scottish Throne. Macbeth went from not even thinking about the Throne to treating it as his ultimate goal in life. Reading about power in fiction gives us an understanding on real-life power because people in our day are still hungry of power. It may not be throne power,

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