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What Role Does Honesty Play In Macbeth

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Honesty plays a crucial role when one’s desires blind his/her good nature. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is about a man who transforms from a loyal warrior to a greedy tyrant. After hearing a fortune from three witches, the protagonist Macbeth gradually begins to develop greed for becoming king. The play focuses on Macbeth going through a mental journey to keep his place as king secure from any known threats. Throughout the play, Macbeth’s sanity disappears as his consumption of power gradually grows and triumphs over the humble warrior that Macbeth once was. In his play Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses the motifs of hallucinations to foreshadow the fall of Macbeth and his reign. Before the climax of the play, the dinner party

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