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Don't you know it's unlucky to say the M word before a performance?




     (For reference I'm answering question 1.)




     I believe people who are not "evil" take the first step into evil to satisfy their deepest, innermost desires, otherwise known as the id. However with these people, their filter, or superego, is either broken, compromised, or completely disregarded. This allows their outwardly decisions and actions, or their ego, to be broadcasted to others, some of those selfish decisions, of which some are unfortunately evil. In an example, namely M@c83!4, the protagonist commits an act of murder against King Duncan, even though they are great friends and they trust each other with their lives, so that he himself could become the king. In a second flux of power-hungriness by the protagonist, he sends assassins to kill his best friend, even greater than King Duncan (like friends since birth), Banquo, and his son, Fleance, because it is prophesized that he, Banquo, will be the father of many kings, which would replace the protagonist's current position as king.


     In taking that first step to evil, or as in the play M@c83!4, "down the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire" (M - Play, 2.3), one must have a savage passion for the thing they most desire. In M@c83!4's case, this is power. Once the three witches tell him that the throne will be his, he begins to weigh the pros and cons of committing such evil acts and once he starts he cannot stop. The one who helps in convincing the protagonist that committing such acts were necessary was his wife, Lady M@c83!4. She used different tactics to motivate him to do such a thing, such as questioning his masculinity. Something that affects our emotions, like a family calling out your flaws, helps to convince one to take that first evil step.


     However, taking that first step into evil doesn't come without consequences. First off, doing evil acts, such as murder, theft, petty crimes and misdemeanors, adultery, and abuse all come with external consequences. Most of those that were just written come with not only a fine or fee because it's against the law, but you could also go to prison and serve long (even life) sentences. With more personal things that have evil intentions it could cost your happiness (no more sweet baby animals for you!). Furthermore, as seen in M@c83!4, these evil acts could affect one internally as well. The protagonist in the play goes insane with visions, sounds and apparitions of the dead, such as his friend Banquo. It is said on many TV shows that the person who's killed someone can never forget their face or the situation because on could feel guilty about such acts. Guilt is the truth trying to break free from within. It is guilt that keeps Macbeth from sleeping at night and seeing such non-apparent things. These are the consequences, thanks Key and Peele. 8-D
    
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