Imagine this: you’re a star basketball player, you've played for seven years, received many trophies, and wish to be MVP of your senior year but... your best friend has a good shot at becoming MVP. Now it's your very last practice and you have to make a choice: "accidentally" trip your best friend and make her sit out her last game or work harder and still maybe not become MVP. This is an example of having a bad ego. You wanted all the attention to yourself, and you would do anything to get it. This is what happens in the story of Macbeth. Macbeth was a man who did anything to get to the top, even killing his best friend.
"We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon (Act I Scene VII)." Here we see Macbeth's ego, he's not wanting to commit the murder because it's bad or because Duncan is his friend. But he's only worried about the opinions of people who already think very highly of him. "If we should fail (Act I Scene VII)?" Once again, focus on what others will think. All that is going through his head is, "What will happen if everyone finds out." This is like a little girl who has crush and doesn't want anyone to find out. This is seen all throughout Macbeth, a man who is worried …show more content…
Macbeth worked his way to get to the top, only to have it all knocked down. I believe being a teenager, we all have egos which are hard to control. We are constantly bombarded with perfect models on the magazine covers, or being made fun of because our jeans were only ten dollars when someone else has forty dollar jeans. We can get very focused on the outward appearances. Psalm 118:6 states, "The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?" We should fear our Lord not people, who are only here for a short amount of
"We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon (Act I Scene VII)." Here we see Macbeth's ego, he's not wanting to commit the murder because it's bad or because Duncan is his friend. But he's only worried about the opinions of people who already think very highly of him. "If we should fail (Act I Scene VII)?" Once again, focus on what others will think. All that is going through his head is, "What will happen if everyone finds out." This is like a little girl who has crush and doesn't want anyone to find out. This is seen all throughout Macbeth, a man who is worried …show more content…
Macbeth worked his way to get to the top, only to have it all knocked down. I believe being a teenager, we all have egos which are hard to control. We are constantly bombarded with perfect models on the magazine covers, or being made fun of because our jeans were only ten dollars when someone else has forty dollar jeans. We can get very focused on the outward appearances. Psalm 118:6 states, "The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?" We should fear our Lord not people, who are only here for a short amount of