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Our Decisions In Macbeth, If, And Sports Gene

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It 's a step on which I must fall down or else o 'erleap. Macbeth got to do something he has never done before,killing. This reaction towards killing is something that will affect our lives. Another thing is our decisions we take in life. One aspect that we have no control over is our destiny. We don 't know what will happen. Our destiny is already written for us. In Shakepeare 's Macbeth ,"If", and "Sports Gene", it is proven that we can control our decisions and reaction, but we have no control over our destiny. Our decisions is what we are based upon and what it represent ourselves. "Chance may crown me w/o my stir" in "Macbeth." It 's close to my thesis cause Macbeth doesn 't know if he 's gonna be king and it 's like us ,humans, we don

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