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Examples Of Betrayal In Macbeth
Macbeth Rough Draft: Betrayal,Untrustworthy

Betraying and non trusting people have been around since the dawn of time. Have you ever told on your best friend that trusted you? In Macbeth and in now times it's still the same. Macbeth killed King Duncan and in real life your closest friends snitch on you, and try to get you locked up. The reasons why people betrayal other people is for personal gain and to be a snake.

The whole theme to this essay is betrayal and untrustworthy people have been around forever. My quote is the Thane of Cawdor of Scotland betrays Scotland and fights on the side of Norway (Shakespeare 1:2:52). In my own words this means he went against his country and fought against it for his country’s enemies. …show more content…
In these times you can’t even trust your blood. My example is the rapper Boogie With Da Hoodie because his closest friend betrayed him by shooting his brother for a rival gang. Just like Thane of Cawdor he betrayed his home to fight for his home’s enemies. It makes me sick that there's lots and lots of betrayal still today.

When you are doing better than your friends then they get jealous and try to lie and stab you in the back and steal your success. My example is me when I lived with my mom, sister, step brother, and my stepdad. When I was doing good in school and in sports my step brother got jealous and kept trying to steal my homework and putting me down about not being good at sports. It links to the thesis because people are willing to tear a family and trust apart to get personal gain. Like when Macbeth wanted to kill Banquo and his son so they won’t be king.

So in Conclusion betrayal and untrustworthy snakes that call themselves human have been around forever. It doesn’t matter the place or time or race or gender since way back in Macbeth to now times trust doesn’t mean a lot anymore. I’m hoping it will change so someone’s word has value again. Let me ask you something. If the world didn’t have people that betray and steal trust how would nowadays be different than how it is with all those
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