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How Is Macbeth A Good Leader

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“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says go- a leader says let’s go”-E. M. Kelly. Macbeth (written by Shakespeare) is seen as a good leader by most of the people that have read the poem because he is brave and courageous. Machiavelli’s The Prince, would disagree with people’s idea of Macbeth being a good leader because he has morals and no ambition for violence. Everyone thinks they have morals till the want something. Machiavelli 's idea of morals is if you really want something you won’t care about morals in order to obtain it. In the poem The Prince it is quoted what he feels about morals,”In this case let me refer the reader to what I 'll be saying later about when rulers should, or then again shouldn 't, keep

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