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Macbeth Compared To Today: The Opioid Crisis

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2018
Shakespeare's Macbeth Compared to Today: the Opioid Crisis Many themes and symbols in Macbeth can be connected and related to the modern world. To name a few, there is death, greed, and blood that make countless appearances throughout the literary piece. These themes can connect to countless world issues and epidemics. But some of the most prominent themes in Macbeth is betrayal, and that people or things are not who or what they claim to be. This can be related to the opioid crisis: an event that has been rapidly spreading throughout the U.S. and other parts of the world like the plague. The craziness and immense efforts to eradicate the opioid crisis can relate to the events to end the reign of Macbeth. (background of the opioid

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