Good People Doing Bad Things

The play Macbeth is a great example of people who are good doing things that are really bad. Macbeth was a goodhearted, trustworthy person until his wanting for the title of king and his wife's ambition took him over. A real life example of good people going bad was with Bill Clinton during his second presidential term.
President Clinton had previously been considered as one of the best presidents in American history; he created a national surplus out of a massive national debt, effectively minimized ethnic conflict in Africa, and created one of America's greatest economic situations in nearly 30 years. Then one day in 1998 towards the end of his second term the country would find out that Clinton had been involved in scandal. It was revealed to the country that Clinton had been having a private affair with an intern in his office named Monica Lewinsky, and then Clinton was charged with sexual misconduct by many people inside his administration (the most notable being Paula Jones) and brought to court.
In court he continually stated how he "never slept with that women," over and over again. Then as the case went on it was discovered that he had been lying the entire time; as a result of that he was charged with purgery, or lying under oath. This dramatically lower his public image with the American people and made some people begin to question him. This legal conflict nearly caused Clinton to lose his presidential status nearly 3 years before he was supposed to (which would have made him the first president to be actually impeached). However, he managed to get out of it because congress couldn't get enough votes to impeach him (this was probably because congress was heavily represented by democrats who wanted Clinton to remain in office). Clinton now had a scarred reputation and a loss of credibility in many ways, one such example was that he became the butt of many jokes on Saturday Night Live, and many other comedy shows. The rest of his term went by without much other conflict and he would leave office as scheduled in 2001, where he would be succeeded by George W. Bush, the son of Clinton's predecessor George H.W. Bush.
This type of thing was similar to Macbeth in the sense that both Clinton and Macbeth were both honest, hard working, trustworthy men who became victims to doing things that were morally wrong. Both made some bad decisions, tried to cover them up, and both got caught doing things wrong. Unfortunately for Macbeth, I don't think that he will get a congressional hearing and a fair trial for his actions, he will probably have to "learn" from his mistakes in a more severe, less humane way.