Today’s Sin Leads to Tomorrow’s Sorrow A masterful playwright and poet named William Shakespeare in the Seventeenth century wrote both the tragedies Macbeth and Othello. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the idea of one character becoming both victim and villain is introduced. Macbeth falls prey to others’ deception, and is supplanted with greed and hate when three witches trick him. When told that he is going to be King of Scotland, Macbeth does …showed first 75 words of 1403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1403 total…release. While both men were in the wrong, they immediately felt the pain and anguish of remorse, wanting nothing more than to take back what they had done. It is said that time heals all wounds, and that one can be forgiven for all their transgressions. Macbeth and Othello realized this as well; however, they could not forgive themselves for their indiscretions and both men came to know death by their own hands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**