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    In my opinion Lady Macbeth is more responsible than macbeth for Duncan’s murder. even though macbeth is more of the aggressive since he is the one who actually killed duncan‚ he had no intention of killing the king until his wife started harassing him. in act 1 scene 7 Lady Macbeth say "that made you break this enterprise to me? when you durst do it‚ then you were a man." In that quote she is basically saying he wont be a man until he kills the king. Macbeth was happy with how everything had been

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    Lady Macbeth is the mastermind in the death of Duncan in the play ‘Macbeth’. She pushed Macbeth into killing Duncan. Lady macbeth is married to the main character Macbeth and when she received a letter from Macbeth informing her of what the witches told him‚ she begins to think of a plan to kill Duncan. Macbeth is a loyal guy and when he heard the witches tell him their vision‚ he was willing to bypass the idea of it and continue being just the Thane of Glamis. However‚ Lady Macbeth pushes and persuades

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    Lady Macbeth is more responsible for the killing of Duncan. She got Macbeth to go against something he had not planned to do‚ Lady Macbeth also planned the way to kill him. Macbeth did not plan to kill Duncan. He did not feel that it was a good idea to follow through with the plan. In act 1 scene 7 line 31 he says “we will proceed no further in this [plan].” He also worries that they could get caught like in line 59 “if we should fail” but‚ Lady Macbeth says “screw your courage to the sticking-place

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    Macbeth’s Downfall A guilty conscience can make anyone go mad it they let it. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an ideal example of this. Macbeth‚ a noble of Scotland‚ lets his ambitions to be great and powerful get the best of him. His vaulting ambition makes him do terrible acts of violence continuously. The guilty conscience he holds on his back eventually becomes too heavy ultimately driving him insane. Greed and guilt cause the madness of this protagonist thus causing his downfall‚ not only

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    dies. I believe Herbert is the blame. Since Herbert didn’t believe in the paw he caused his own death. We were going to be rich and happy. Wish to be an emperor. He was making fun of the mystery of the paw. That could have been a reason he put death on his self for not believing and making fun of it. He sat in the darkness gazing at the dying fire. He was probably thinking of bad things. He had seen his own big face in the mist of the fire. Those were probably signs of him be deceased.

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    play called‚ Macbeth. This entertaining play is written by Shakespeare. Macbeth got told by the witches‚ that he would become king. Macbeth decides that the best way to do that is to kill the king so he gets a step closer to becoming king. The problem is‚ he doesn’t just kill the king‚ he kills other people. The main question in this book is who is responsible for for numerous of deaths? Macbeth kills lots of people‚ but could others have influenced him? In my opinion‚ I think that Macbeth is ultimately

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    Dido tragically committed suicide after Aeneas left to continue his adventure. Although she was manipulated by the gods‚ she is ultimately responsible for her own fate. Dido was affected by many tragic events that were completely out of her control. However‚ these events were created with the intent of either helping Aeneas get to Italy or to prevent him from getting to Italy. Cupid made her fall in love with Aeneas‚ because Venus wanted to guarantee Aeneas’ safety (1.782-821). Juno gets her to

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    The Holocaust was the method and routine of subjugate and murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi Government and its collaborators. It took place in Germany from 1933-1945. There was a total number of 6 million Jewish people who were killed and other groups such as Gypsies‚ Poles‚ Slaves‚ and Blacks. Some others that were killed were homosexuals‚ disabled‚ elderly‚ communists‚ and jehovah’s witnesses. As a total there were 10 million people killed. HItler and the Nazis had the power in the

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    Oedipus the King- Blind To His Own Problems No problem can ever be solved by avoiding‚ hiding or running from it. The best way to solve troubles is to confront them. In the play Oedipus the King‚ the heroine of the story‚ named Oedipus‚ has many troubles. He is looked upon to save Thebes‚ the city of his reign‚ from the terrible plague that has come to it. Throughout the play‚ Oedipus struggles in finding the murderer of King Laius (the prophet Delphi tells Creon that the murderer must be driven

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    Who I think is responsible for the ‘Rena Disaster’! ! The Rena Disaster was a oil spill disaster that happened off the coast of Tauranga in New Zealand on the 5th of October 2011. The crash was cause by the grounding of the Rena Ship on the Astrolable Reef at 17 knots. I think that the captain of the Rena (Mauro Balomaga) was the one responsible for the disaster. ! ! First of all‚ I think this because it was mostly the Captain’s decision to take the shortcut on the way to the Port

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