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After reading “Why Read Shakespeare” the author Michael Mack stated that the main and most important reason why we should read Shakespeare is because the characters you find in Shakespeare are often related to the personality types of people you will meet in life from time to time. Like the ambitious, the curious, the selfish, the courageous, the clueless, and even the prideful. Mack also mentioned that reading about life’s characters can also help you better understand yourself. But for now we will be focusing on figuring out the actors of life’s stage, by comparing the universal traits to the characters we see in stories and texts like Macbeth, “Macbeth Murder mystery”, and “5 P.M, Tuesday, August 23, 2005.” In …show more content…

In this story the narrator meets a woman whom he calls “the American woman” currently reading the “Macbeth Murder Mystery”. She and the narrator are complete strangers who had only just met each other in a library. The American woman is very outgoing, determined, and opinionated. So the two of them eventually become somewhat good friends, encouraging each other to finish reading the story and to figure out who the murderer is. At last, it is the the author who finds out the murderer: “ ‘I’ve found out,’ I said triumphantly, ‘the name of the murderer!’” They both go back and forth, excitedly explaining what conclusions they had gathered. Both the narrator and the American woman share the same trait as Macbeth: pride. Both narrator and the American woman take pride in figuring out and solving the “Macbeth Murder Mystery.” In Macbeth , Macbeth expresses pride in act 1 scene 7 when he says “Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking off.” What Macbeth is trying to say is that although Duncan has done a good job at being a king, but is now “meek.” By belittling Duncan, Macbeth shows a more spiteful kind of

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