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When Macbeth isn't killing fools, and plotting murder, he is riding from land to land.  But there are some long roads out there, and to pass the time he watched a lot of Netflix.  Here are a few of his top choices. SPOILER ALERT, LITERALLY SO MANY SORRY. If you aren't watching Game of Thrones yet, what are you doing?  Game of Thrones is a story of medieval horrors.  Backstabbing, murder, ghosts, dragons, NUDITY, it's top tier television.  But Macbeth doesn't watch it for entertainment, he watches it for inspiration.  He is particularly attached to Geoffrey Lannister, who took power for himself and did anything possible to maintain his rule.  Spoiler alert, being king doesn't end well for either of them. Who doesn't love Breaking Bad?  It follows the story of the once good man, who somehow through fate has the opportunity to take power for himself.  But once he gets the power, he becomes corrupted by it.  Remind you of someone you k...

      Through my experience with stories and life I have come to the conclusion that there are two main reasons why a totally good and sane person, may turn their life around and become evil.  These reasons are greed, and inner desires, mixed with just one bad interaction.        In Macbeth, Macbeth is started on a path to evil and destruction after one interaction.  Near the beginning of the play Macbeth is referred to by three witches as the thane(king) of two lands, and then the eventual king of Scotland. At the time he was only the thane of Glamis, so him discovering that he had become the thane of Cawdor greatly affected him.  This interaction isn't enough to turn a good man evil however.  This interaction reacted with one other aspect to push Macbeth onto a road to evil and destruction, Macbeth's greedy ambition.  Macbeth had always had the greed and ambition to do more with his life.  All it took for Macbeth to t...