The Importance Of Listening To Your Mind In Macbeth

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1. Does listening to your heart or your mind lead to success?

Macbeth: I’d like to say that listening to your mind leads to success but sadly it is not true. The thing about the mind is that it can become twisted and change course during the journey to success. All I wanted was to be King of Scotland, or at least my wife did. My mind has been influenced so much to the point where I became paranoid and delusional towards the end of my life. From seeing apparitions of my friend, so close that I may call him brother to the point where I thought I was invincible based on a witch’s prophecy (Makes sense as only one witch said that only man not born of women could kill him). Had I not listened to my heart aching, before murdering Duncan, my downfall would have never occurred. I did not originally have the motivation to
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Everything was fine until I got the letter back from Macbeth on how he might become king. I believed that he was incapable of doing what I thought necessary for my dreams. I gave him my ambitions to help him execute the steps necessary to become king. After all the killings occurred I began sleep talking ,and constantly in the middle of the nights was trying to wash blood off my hands. I was suffering from guilt as I could not forgive myself. First off, Duncan reminded me of my father so that made the death more uneasy for me. I could have never been able to forgive myself for murdering him directly. I became so engulfed in my guilt that in my sleep I said“ All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”(53-55, 5.1). I was torn that I had to be courageous for my husband but felt so much resentment for what I had caused. I began thinking more about our actions and Macbeth started ignoring all the consequences of those actions. It had been my mind that influenced Macbeth into committing all these atrocities, causing him to fail and me under all that guilt to kill