Starbucks and Déjà vu: Megalomaniacs Assemble!
Macbeth, Satan, and Victor Frankenstein walk into a bar…well, a Starbucks. It may sound like the beginning of an odd joke, but this situation is actually the window into some interesting insight of the views of power by individuals whose very stories are woven around the concept. In a way, each of these characters can be viewed in a negative light because of their involvement with power: killing for it, losing it, manipulating for it, or abusing it.
In Macbeth’s case, he leans towards the “killing for it” category. In the beginning of his story, he’s presented to us as a strong fighter and one with qualms towards killing others in cold blood. It’s only when the witches and his wife step in to fuel …show more content…
In a way, he got the worst punishment of the three. That being said, his position in the argument of power would be similar to Macbeth’s in the way he is likely to say that losing his whole family wasn’t worth his conquest, but it would differ because Frankenstein is a man of science. He’s a mad doctor to did not at any point have truly evil intentions. Young Victor wanted to cheat death, but he meant no harm when he began to make his dream a reality. He would argue that his accomplishment wasn’t worth the price he paid, but perhaps, driven by the pursuit of scientific discovery, he would admit that, if he could do it over again, he wouldn’t refuse to challenge death, but he would certainly try to make the outcome more pleasant. In the true fashion of an overworked mind, Victor Frankenstein would be gulping down one, two, five, or maybe ten expressos. He needs the energy if he’s going to be changing the science of the …show more content…
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” an egotistical prince dooms all of his party guests to death when he mistakenly tries to escape disease with revelry. In The Great Gatsby, a dirt-poor boy turned wealthy bootlegger dedicates his entire life to a ditzy woman who doesn’t deserve it and ends up dead. In Frankenstein, a Swiss boy grows up reading the wrong books and creates a monster that ends up directly and indirectly killing off his entire family before he dies trying to hunt it down. Of course, some details were left out of these summaries, but the pattern that seems to occur in every one of these works of literature from my past is that the protagonists have poor decision-making skills and
Macbeth, Satan, and Victor Frankenstein walk into a bar…well, a Starbucks. It may sound like the beginning of an odd joke, but this situation is actually the window into some interesting insight of the views of power by individuals whose very stories are woven around the concept. In a way, each of these characters can be viewed in a negative light because of their involvement with power: killing for it, losing it, manipulating for it, or abusing it.
In Macbeth’s case, he leans towards the “killing for it” category. In the beginning of his story, he’s presented to us as a strong fighter and one with qualms towards killing others in cold blood. It’s only when the witches and his wife step in to fuel …show more content…
In a way, he got the worst punishment of the three. That being said, his position in the argument of power would be similar to Macbeth’s in the way he is likely to say that losing his whole family wasn’t worth his conquest, but it would differ because Frankenstein is a man of science. He’s a mad doctor to did not at any point have truly evil intentions. Young Victor wanted to cheat death, but he meant no harm when he began to make his dream a reality. He would argue that his accomplishment wasn’t worth the price he paid, but perhaps, driven by the pursuit of scientific discovery, he would admit that, if he could do it over again, he wouldn’t refuse to challenge death, but he would certainly try to make the outcome more pleasant. In the true fashion of an overworked mind, Victor Frankenstein would be gulping down one, two, five, or maybe ten expressos. He needs the energy if he’s going to be changing the science of the …show more content…
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” an egotistical prince dooms all of his party guests to death when he mistakenly tries to escape disease with revelry. In The Great Gatsby, a dirt-poor boy turned wealthy bootlegger dedicates his entire life to a ditzy woman who doesn’t deserve it and ends up dead. In Frankenstein, a Swiss boy grows up reading the wrong books and creates a monster that ends up directly and indirectly killing off his entire family before he dies trying to hunt it down. Of course, some details were left out of these summaries, but the pattern that seems to occur in every one of these works of literature from my past is that the protagonists have poor decision-making skills and