The Tragedy
Macbeth, a tragic play written by Williams Shakespeare, shows a couple and their ambition for Macbeth to become King of Scotland. This play implies that ambition can cause people to commit treason or even murder in order to achieve power. This has been shown in other places of literature, such as Lord or the Flies, and in real life as well.
Ambition can make people do things that they would never do in order to get power or wealth. Macbeth soon shows his ambition to become the king of Scotland shortly after meeting with the witches. “All hail, Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter”. (Act 1 Scene 3 William Shakespeare) This is the whiches telling Macbeth that he will become king. He was blissful and wrote his wife Lady Macbeth a letter, and told her about the news. That’s when Lady Macbeth then gains the same ambition for Macbeth to become king. …show more content…
As in the play you could see this in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as well as from the kids in Lord of the Flies. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill the blood”. (LOFT William Golding pg 75) This was when they all gathered around fighting over power that they killed Simon. In the beginning of the book none of the kids could decide on a set of rules to follow, so their ambiton took over eachother to fight for power over each other. “I painted my face, I stole up, now you eat, all of you, and I”. (LOTF William Golding pg 191) This was showing how jack was giving everyone meat so that he could prove that he would make a better leader, even though their main concurn should be getting off the island, not power. Jake didn’t let Simon eat unless Simon joined his group, if Simon didn’t eat then Simon would starve. This shows that people would treat others how they normaly wouldn’t inorder to get something that they
Macbeth, a tragic play written by Williams Shakespeare, shows a couple and their ambition for Macbeth to become King of Scotland. This play implies that ambition can cause people to commit treason or even murder in order to achieve power. This has been shown in other places of literature, such as Lord or the Flies, and in real life as well.
Ambition can make people do things that they would never do in order to get power or wealth. Macbeth soon shows his ambition to become the king of Scotland shortly after meeting with the witches. “All hail, Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter”. (Act 1 Scene 3 William Shakespeare) This is the whiches telling Macbeth that he will become king. He was blissful and wrote his wife Lady Macbeth a letter, and told her about the news. That’s when Lady Macbeth then gains the same ambition for Macbeth to become king. …show more content…
As in the play you could see this in the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, as well as from the kids in Lord of the Flies. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill the blood”. (LOFT William Golding pg 75) This was when they all gathered around fighting over power that they killed Simon. In the beginning of the book none of the kids could decide on a set of rules to follow, so their ambiton took over eachother to fight for power over each other. “I painted my face, I stole up, now you eat, all of you, and I”. (LOTF William Golding pg 191) This was showing how jack was giving everyone meat so that he could prove that he would make a better leader, even though their main concurn should be getting off the island, not power. Jake didn’t let Simon eat unless Simon joined his group, if Simon didn’t eat then Simon would starve. This shows that people would treat others how they normaly wouldn’t inorder to get something that they