The plot of Macbeth and Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and William Shakespeare seems to revolve around this idea of betrayal and redemption. But there is no coming back from or redeeming yourself from betraying your best friend. In this essay you will be hearing how betrayal took advantage of a friendship and how betrayal and power turned another man into a maniac.
Amir betrays his best friend Hassan many times in the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini but the one that stands out the most is when he watches his friend get brutally raped by the neighborhood bullies and instead of running in and stopping them or at least provoke them he runs away like a coward. “I ran because I was a coward. The real reason I was running, was that Assef …show more content…
Malcolm, awake!” (II.iii.79-80)”
The reason behind this murder of Duncan was because Macbeth was told by three witches that he will be king someday but in Macbeth’s selfish eyes he sees only one way… killing the present king. This idea of betraying someone that he had brought into his castle as a guess haunts Macbeth all throughout the evening, but his wife Lady Macbeth persuades him into doing it by telling him what great things will come out of it. This act of betrayal affects Macbeth's character development because once he has killed Duncan and the guards and framed them, he starts to become the slightest bit paranoid thinking that someone is going to find out about what he did. But this only turns things sideways because that one betrayal lead to a series of other ones including Macbeth killing his best friend Banquo because of his paranoia and guilt which also lead to Macbeth becoming a complete maniac.
In conclusion you can see that betrayal played a big role in both of these books and how betrayal ruined a childhood friendship and drove a man insane. Betraying the people they were closest to was never a good idea for either of these characters because as a result in doing so it only left them both in a pit of
Amir betrays his best friend Hassan many times in the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini but the one that stands out the most is when he watches his friend get brutally raped by the neighborhood bullies and instead of running in and stopping them or at least provoke them he runs away like a coward. “I ran because I was a coward. The real reason I was running, was that Assef …show more content…
Malcolm, awake!” (II.iii.79-80)”
The reason behind this murder of Duncan was because Macbeth was told by three witches that he will be king someday but in Macbeth’s selfish eyes he sees only one way… killing the present king. This idea of betraying someone that he had brought into his castle as a guess haunts Macbeth all throughout the evening, but his wife Lady Macbeth persuades him into doing it by telling him what great things will come out of it. This act of betrayal affects Macbeth's character development because once he has killed Duncan and the guards and framed them, he starts to become the slightest bit paranoid thinking that someone is going to find out about what he did. But this only turns things sideways because that one betrayal lead to a series of other ones including Macbeth killing his best friend Banquo because of his paranoia and guilt which also lead to Macbeth becoming a complete maniac.
In conclusion you can see that betrayal played a big role in both of these books and how betrayal ruined a childhood friendship and drove a man insane. Betraying the people they were closest to was never a good idea for either of these characters because as a result in doing so it only left them both in a pit of