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…showed last 75 words of 647 total…power, he was killed trying to keep it. What brought Macbeth up in the world also had sent him tumbling down. Shakespeare uses the character Macbeth to show to the audience the outcomes of greed. A person who was doing fine in life destroyed himself because of his want to be more. Macbeth shows how the quest for power is the quest for disaster. As boldly stated before: Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely.