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Image source:  https://www.goldstar.com/events/chicago-il/netflix-and-kill-tickets With Netflix there is endless streaming of your favorite movies, TV shows, miniseries, and more. There must be something to suit everyone's taste, right? Let's find out if there is really something out there for everyone. Let's pick a person and see what they would watch. That person doesn't even have to be real. Let's say....... Lady Macbeth, what would she watch on Netflix? Here are the recommendations: Recommendation #1: Reign Right off the bat this may seem to be an obvious choice. A queen of Scotland? Sounds like Lady Macbeth to me. Reign follows the rise to power of Mary Queen of Scots. She arrives in France at the age of fifteen, and is set to marry Prince Francis in order to unite the kingdoms of France and Scotland under a treaty. However, Mary finds dark forces against her, when Nostradamus has a vision that Prince Francis will die, and the cause of h...

Image credit:  www.imdb.com/title/tt2884018/ "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton Shakespeare would have likely agreed with this statement to a slight extent. Shakespeare would have likely believed that the prospect of power, and the quest to grow one's power is what corrupts, not the power itself. Shakespeare presents this idea in many of his plays, Macbeth and Hamlet are the two I can think of offhand. In Macbeth , the idea of the quest for power corrupting an individual is easily seen through Macbeth's drive to get the crown, while ideas of power not corrupting are present through Malcolm and Macduff, one a son of Duncan, and the other a thane of Scotland. The quest for power is also present in The Lion King , which is based on the story of Hamlet, in Scar's corruption due to his greed and desire for power. In Macbeth , corruption in the quest for power is present through the rise and fall of Macbeth, and the u...