It is no secret that keeping up with the times is no easy feat as new technologies are created, new trends and memes are taking over society each day, but there is one writer who has managed to stay relevant more than 400 years after his death. The great William Shakespeare wrote many plays that tackled topics much more meaningful than the exciting adventures of grand people on fairy-tale quests to slay dragons or whatever was relevant in the times of Queen Elizabeth I or King James I. His plays told stories of people from all backgrounds but most of all he is remembered for his tragedies. In many ways his tragedies are the most relevant and will retain importance for many centuries to come because it is the powerful portrayal of humans at
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Like Macbeth hiring murderers to kill Banquo, he did not see to it himself, but in this case used two clueless girls to apply a nerve agent to his face. Just three years before this, Kim Jong Un had his uncle publicly executed as an example for those who wish to follow his thinking. This has left the North Korean dictator with less people to challenge his leadership and feel security in his position rather than paranoia which is exactly what Macbeth hoped to achieve by killing innocent …show more content…
One woman with these traits who has had her fair share of spotlight over the years is Hillary Clinton. Like Lady Macbeth, Hillary Clinton was willing to sacrifice something in order to achieve her goals. She sacrificed her feelings in order to stay by her husband’s side even though the former American president was found to have had an affair with a Whitehouse intern Monica Lewinsky for several years throughout their marriage. This powerful determination to succeed, is what lead Hillary to run in the American presidential election herself in 2016 which, if had she won, would have allowed her to be the first woman to be an American president. This same determination to succeed is what led Lady Macbeth to sacrifice her feminine traits in order to kill King Malcom in the line “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers” (1,5,41-49) because it was not the job of a woman, mother and a nurturer, to
Like Macbeth hiring murderers to kill Banquo, he did not see to it himself, but in this case used two clueless girls to apply a nerve agent to his face. Just three years before this, Kim Jong Un had his uncle publicly executed as an example for those who wish to follow his thinking. This has left the North Korean dictator with less people to challenge his leadership and feel security in his position rather than paranoia which is exactly what Macbeth hoped to achieve by killing innocent …show more content…
One woman with these traits who has had her fair share of spotlight over the years is Hillary Clinton. Like Lady Macbeth, Hillary Clinton was willing to sacrifice something in order to achieve her goals. She sacrificed her feelings in order to stay by her husband’s side even though the former American president was found to have had an affair with a Whitehouse intern Monica Lewinsky for several years throughout their marriage. This powerful determination to succeed, is what lead Hillary to run in the American presidential election herself in 2016 which, if had she won, would have allowed her to be the first woman to be an American president. This same determination to succeed is what led Lady Macbeth to sacrifice her feminine traits in order to kill King Malcom in the line “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers” (1,5,41-49) because it was not the job of a woman, mother and a nurturer, to