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Trust is a value that a person in general should not want to destroy. Lying and withholding information can easily manipulate it. The Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines trust as, “Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something” (“Trust." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2014. .) Trust is believing in a person and aquiatencing them into one’s life to be able to depend on the. Macbeth broke his trust by lying and being malicious in order to gain the title Duncan once had. In my personal experience I had broken trust with my parents by lying and withholding things from my parents. In both situations things tend to escalate because of the constant lying.
Macbeth and his wife maliciously plotted to kill Duncan who was one of Macbeth’s truest supporters. Before the dirty deed, Macbeth had said, “If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly” (15). He was scheming to have this done in a discrete fast way. All after Duncan awarded him with the title of the...

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