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Lady Macbeth chooses to watch...

1. Vampire Diaries  Lady Macbeth became very sensitive to blood which is seen through her sleepwalking.  The vampires in Vampire Diaries are also very sensitive to the smell of blood and can not stand when someone is bleeding out because they just want to drink it.  Lady Macbeth would be able to relate to Elena who is scared when she first becomes a vampire and hates that she wants blood and panics when she drinks too much of it.  2. Reign Lady Macbeth would enjoy seeing how a woman would run Scotland as she aspires to be her and be able to be powerful over the kingdom.  She would be able to be brave and courageous to rule just like Queen Mary in the tv show Reign.  Queen Mary who became in control of Scotland and has to figure out the ruling and battles to fight which can relate to the Macbeth's.   3. The Returned The show is about how people who were pronounced dead are reappearing.  Lady Macbeth during her sleepwalking could not get the image of dead, bleedi

Taking the step to evil

1. Why do people who are not "evil" take the first step into evil? What, for instance, is involved in taking that first step "down the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire" (Macbeth, 2.3)? What are the consequences of the individual choosing evil (particularly the internal consequences)? A person chooses to become evil. People are not born evil, due to their wants, desires, ambition they may take the step to becoming evil. A person decides to become evil or not. Their wants, desires, and ambitions may drive them to the place of evil but they are making the actions theirselves, therefore they are responsible for their evil actions. In this state of the world where a lot of evil has taken place with mass shootings, bombs, etc. people ask why do they do it? It is because of their own wants, they do not consider the other people, they only consider themselves which makes them selfish and selfish may tend to lean them towards the evil spectrum. Their wants to becom