Both ‘The Hours’ (1998) and ‘Macbeth’ (1606-1607) present the impact of mental health on people from different eras. In comparing Shakespeare’s play about a man and women who become mad due to their guilt from killing multiple people and Cunningham’s novel about a group of women who live in different eras and the challenges they...
Ambition Destroys: The Flip Side A recurring theme in both William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad is that of ambition. The representation of the concept of ambition these two works has several similarities, especially when it comes to the pursuit of power, riches, and greatness. Ambition in both of these works, it is...
Introduction When influenced by external forces or internal conflict within oneself, the human mind can easily become corrupted by the desire for thriving power. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the themes of ambition and power corrupting are presented as vices of the protagonist Macbeth, and serve to cause his tragic demise whereas Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes...
Shakespeare uses his play, Macbeth, to demonstrate the importance of the roles of positions that god has allocated to living things on earth in an order, what is not in The Great Chain of Being is considered as “evil”, “dark” and “bad luck.” The three mysterious witches have an unclear nature; meaning that it is...
A strong and recurring theme between the texts “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare and “Neighbors” by Raymond Carver is entrapment and fate. Macbeth is a story of a young couple who are bored of their “low” life they relive every day when they take matters into their own hands and decide to kill their King, King...
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The theatrical piece, ‘Macbeth’, written by William Shakespeare in the 1600’s explores the broad concept of masculinity and the qualities, such as violence and strength as well as ‘what it is to be a man’. The play takes place in 11th century Scotland, where Shakespeare illustrates the Patriarchal society. During these times men had superiority...
Ambition is a key motivator of one’s goals and desires. If regulated, ambition can contribute to success. However, overambitious behavior, as a result of pride in one’s achievements or social status, can lead to greed and corruption of one’s character, strongly affecting his or her intentions. This is extremely human and is thus represented ubiquitously...
Additionally, he illustrates how the initial illusory character of fear (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, l.51–52: “why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?“) becomes consciously experienced reality (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, l.139-140: “Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings.“) which, through the overvalued conception of...
Thus he hopes to find his security in himself and his deed alone. In a monologue prior to his deed, he explicitly discloses this great wish which he ties to his upcoming crime: “[…] that but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all, […]“ (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7, l.4-5). He hence...
Along with his fear, his hope disappeared as well. What remains is despair, which Elizabethans defined as a sin against the Holy Spirit (Unterstenhöfer, p.171, l.1-4; p.194, l.17-19). Besides, Macbeth himself has, paradoxically, still not realized in act four, scene one that his fear evokes these diverse horror images – such as, for instance, the...