Trauma In Macbeth

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Is an emotion that can cause a person Pain, they can be afraid of something or someone. Nobody escapes fear and a person always trys to avoid it. Everybody in this life has a fear and some people have to learn on how to over come it.It can paranoy a person, you can experience it and be traumatized.
It changes a person's behavior, they act strange, the person can see things that they do not normally see. Like in the story of Macbeth, he see a floating dagger and later in the story he sees ghost of Banquo, and he starts to talk to himself and he kind of freaks out and he is scared that the people will find out it was him because people were staring at Macbeth. Lady Macbeth washes her hands repeatedly saying “out you damned spot ,I say!” and late

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