... President Both Crippled By There Own Flaws. The Watergate scandal in 1972 changed the United States government. President Nixon's mistakes built up until his entire presidency fell apart. Shakespeare's Macbeth relates to the Watergate scandal in a few ways, such as, both Macbeth and Nixon hadmany people involved in their scandals. Also, the way in which they were caught and the effect Macbeth and Nixon's scandal ... people do something for him and then have to give them hush money, which led to more and more people being involved. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth says, "If chance will have...

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... to acquire power. He has even been known to murder for power. The desire for power plays a major role of Shakespeare's story of Macbeth, a tragic figure who seeks greater power, destroys those around him to gain power, and in the end is destroyed by his own greed, as well as in the life of Richard Millhouse Nison, the brilliant, yet self-destructive, thirty ... bothers him constantly. He sets up spys all around his castle and he sees enemies everywhere he goes. Both Macbeth and Nixon eventually fell form grace in much of the same fahion. Macbeth was overconfident, and the witches made h...

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