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Paranoia In Macbeth
The knowing of one’s future could not be as good as it seems. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth as a patronage to King James I. He uses Banquo, which is an ancestor of King James, as a hero in the play. In Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare, he uses Lady Macbeth’s prominent traits of mischievous, paranoia, and guilt-ridden to convey how knowing one’s future can make them go against his morals. From the start Lady Macbeth had a plan and she was not letting anything go wrong. Macbeth killed Duncan and Lady Macbeth killed the guards, so once Macduff found Duncan dead Lady Macbeth faked as if she fainted to distract the crowd of people in her home. After Lady Macbeth faked her faint, Banquo says, “Look to the lady…” (II.III.139). Lady Macbeth did what she thought would take the crowds mind off of the murder. Macbeth and his wife made up …show more content…
At this point no one could do anything to her because they are now in royalty, but she is still feeling guilty for what she has done as well as worried about how people will look at her if they find out. Once Lady Macbeth begins to realize the severity of her actions, she realizes, “… what’s done cannot be undone…” (V.I.56). Lady Macbeth knows that even if people find out about her wrong doings, there is nothing that they can do to her. Her conscience had begun to get the best of her. In this time she is more worried about the judgment and how she is looked at by others. The troublesome, demented, and rueful traits of Lady Macbeth are shown to conduct how not knowing something could actually be for the best. When Lady Macbeth and Macbeth made up their mind to kill Duncan, they were very subtle about it. After they had gone through with their plan, Lady Macbeth began to realize it was not such a good idea after all. She began feeling wrong for her actions and felt worried about her reputation. All in all some things just aren’t worth knowing before it is

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