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Shakespeare develops a couple of themes through the story, one of them is: never be to trusty about your workers; remember that they are shooting for your place. In the book show how king Duncan gave all his trust on his thanes and servants (specially Macbeth) and he got betray by the ones he trust and admire the most. The following quotes will show my point. “Titles of nobility will shine like stars on all of who deserve them. (To Macbeth) and now, lets go to your castle at Inverness, where I will become even more obliged to you because of your hospitality.” (Kind Duncan, pg. 27 act 1 scene 4), this quote shows how king Duncan feel about Macbeth. “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.” (Macbeth, pg. 47, act 1 scene 7) But this one shows how Macbeth fells about not being a king. Other theme that the story has is: never think you are invincible; your confidence might led you to your own death. Trough the story Macbeth gain a lot of enemies, but because of the witches prophecies of him not being beaten by any one born from and woman and other ones that where really difficult to occur, he felt that he was invincible, and this confidence led him to his own grave. In the book there are lot of examples in which Macbeth acts cocky towards his impossibility to be killed. There are two examples that show my point: “Don’t bring me any more reports. I don’t care if all the thanes desert me. Until Birnam Wood gets up and moves to Dunsinane, I wont be affected by fear. What’s the boy Malcolm? Wasn’t he born from a woman? The spirits that know the future have told me t... ... middle of paper ... ...cbeth into a tyrant and the most hated king in all the kingdoms, the only things you hear about Macbeth were, “ Bring me face to face with Macbeth, that devil of Scotland (Macduff, pg. 175)”, or, “ The devil himself couldn’t say name I hate more (young siward, pg. 209)” and “ look, here I have Macbeth´s curse head. We are free from his tyranny (Macduff, pg. 217)”. This quotes shows how Macbeth’s actions change due to his environment, and how people pass from loving him to fear him and hate him. I would recommend this book to all the public, because it is a really easy book to read (the easy version we read) and to understand. I think that juniors (next year seniors) should read only the easy version; I think the normal version can confused you very easily. To be honest I’m not into reading, but I can say that this was one of the best books I had ever read.

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