The story I chose to read is No Fear Shakespeare. This story is about all the things Macbeth did to make it to the top (king), selfish and all, his story is horrific, shocking, and grasping book to read.
The theme of No Fear was if you really want something go out and earn it the right way, even if you know there is no way in getting it at least the people will recognize your greatness and will indeed be grateful of it. Instead in this story Macbeth decided to kill his king and put his land through great sorrow of the horrific situation. Macbeth went and betrayed his land for his own selfish greed.
The first reason I believe this is the theme is because Lady Macbeth stated “you want to be powerful, and you don't lack ambition, but you don't have the mean streak that these things call for.” Towards the beginning of the story Lady Macbeth said this because she believed that Macbeth wasn't capable of killing the king but soon things take a turn and Lady Macbeths perspective on this changes deeply.
Right after Lady Macbeth had stated “you want to be powerful, and you don't lack ambition, but you don't have the mean streak that these things call for.” I feel like Macbeth felt the need to prove her wrong so he took it upon himself to create a devious plan one that had to be done so preciously or his life as we all knew it would be over. He would create a master plan to kill the king. Macbeth stated “Now I’m decided, and I will exert every muscle in my body to commit this crime. Go now, and pretend to be a friendly hostess. Hide with a false pleasant face what you know in your false, evil heart.” When Macbeth stated this to Lady Macbeth it showed that he is truly evil and deceitful, for someone to have the will and anger to go against the land you promised to protect for selfish reasons has no heart and no meaning to there words.
The whole entire story was based upon this one thing that Macbeth decided to do. He could never re-trace back to the past and re-consider the terrible thing that he had done, in the end it shall haunt him forever but that still does not distichous the fact that the things he did were cruel and it just goes to show that he would have never been worthy of king if he didn't kill the original king at first. In the end what's done is done and nothing can change that.
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