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Have you ever wondered what shows Macbeth recommends? Wait no longer! Here is a list of shows you can catch Macbeth watching when he is not ruling: 1) Reign  is Macbeth's favorite show involving ambition for power and the masculinity a king must demonstrate to keep his subjects in line. In the show Reign, King Henry is constantly thinking about his next move of conquest to win England territory for France, demonstrating the ruthlessness a ruler needs to move his kingdom further. King Henry's wife, the Queen, is full of ambition for him and for France, serving a reminder to Macbeth's own wife. Macbeth and King Henry are quite similar in character for they both become paranoid of opposition. For both rulers, their paranoia takes form into visions of the men they have wronged in the past.   2) Vampire Diaries  is Macbeth's guilty pleasure when he wants to tap into his masculinity and bring himself back to his days as a warrior in the battlefield. Stefan Salvato...

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)? Use examples from the text to support your opinion. There are times when people who are not evil gradually become evil as a result of the social environment that surrounds them. The world is filled with choices and because of the pressure to achieve success so they make bad decisions to make that happen quick. Society has ingrained people with the idea of what success consists of and looks like. Therefore, people believe it is necessary to break rules to obtain this image of success. Therefore to conclude, people who are not evil take the first step into evil to please their craving of being successful whether thats economically or socially by being accepted by those around ...