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Mean Girls II: Macbeth, New King In Scotland

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Mean Girls II: Macbeth, New King in Scotland William Shakespeare’s drama, Macbeth, is one of the most renowned plays worldwide. Fate and free will is expressed throughout, and changes the way the characters present themselves. Filled with deception,betrayal, and misguidance, the play exposes characters and their duality through their actions and behaviors. To achieve the fates the characters have been given, they tend to peel their personalities off like costumes to suit a situation, only those who remain true to themselves are able to freely choose how they’ll live. In Act I of Macbeth, you are introduced to Macbeth who is seen as, truthful, ambitious, and valiant. When Macbeth learns that he can become the King of Scotland, he begins to discuss his plot of murder with himself. While he goes …show more content…

Act 5 concentrates in removing not only the masks of characters but the goals they held for their behavior. While the characters do not know the reasons for their actions or other’s actions, the audience, or reader does. Lady Macbeth’s mental state deteriorates underneath the guilt of her false personality. While her fate is never revealed her success could be seen as tied to Macbeth’s. Her mental decline seems like foreshadowing as the play draws close to an end (5.1.2194-2202). Moreover Macbeth’s unraveling is also a highlight in the drama. His mask is completely removed as he discovers the hidden messages behind the witches’ warnings as they slowly become truthful. Macbeth’s fate came true the first time, and he changed himself to reach his ambitions reaching the pinnacle of his given fate. However, once he was warned about his downfall his personality was so disordered and tangled, he had become arrogant and unwary. He had believed in the first fate the witches had given him and Macbeth even saw it come into fruition, amazingly he did not believe in their warnings of his demise

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