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Everyone in this world has their own thought about the meaning of life. To someone, life is meaningful when they achieve success or get a good position in the society while others believe that the meaning of life is happiness. Life is full of tray and lure so that if people are not strong, they will easily get on the wrong track. Consider Macbeth - a Shakespeare's play to see the change in Macbeth's personality because of the attraction of power. His attitude changes before and after Lady Macbeth talks to him.

"We will go no further with this plan. He has honored me recently, and I have won admiration from many people. [...] I am ready. I will strain every muscle to this terrible deed. Let's go and deceive the world with pleasant looks. A false face must what a false heart knows" (Shakespeare, 63 - 67)

From the beginning, Macbeth is a good person who knows what is right and what is wrong. His attitude begins to change when the three witches predict his future and the things get worse when Lady Macbeth use his pride of a man to control him. The greedy of power and the pride of a man are like a tray to lead him to decide to kill King Duncan. And once he has done evil things, he cannot stop. There is sometimes in my life that I have to decide if I should do a evil action or not to get what I want. When I was in primary school, our class held a vote to choose the monitor for the class. I was the one of the two candidates and if I want to get that position, I had to have a bigger vote from my classmate. I was going to speak ill of my competitor with my friends so that they would not vote for her. Luckily, after thinking carefully about its consequence and put myself in my opponent's position, I stopped myself before I took action. Everything was going on naturally and after all, I was voted to be the monitor.

My situation is different than Macbeth because I know to stop myself before it is too late so tat I don't have to regret later.