Lady Macbeth's Crimes

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What would you do if I became Queen for being apart of a crime that no one but you knew about? Call me Queen Lady Macbeth, I am from the play Macbeth written by Shakespeare himself. It is a tragedy play and I am the wife of the protagonist. The play is set in Scotland in the castle. I am not that rich, but not that poor either. As you can see i am the Queen after Macbeth murdered Duncan the previous King of Scotland. I honestly don’t even know why he was King he didn’t do a very good job anyways. Yes I am a deceiving two faced women but hey I got something out of it. Later on in the play everyone turn on me and that’s when I start getting guilty by the minute. I couldn’t take so I committed suicide.

This whole play started off by Macbeth

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