Macbeth And To His Coy Mistress Analysis

“ Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”(Machiavelli) In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Macbeth is a young Scottish general who worked for King Duncan. Macbeth encounters three tacky, befuddled witches who tell Macbeth the prophecy that he will become the Thane of Cawdor and eventually the King of Scotland. Macbeth battles with a psycho, aggressive wife which eventually leads to him gaining hope and freewill. Macbeth and his wife have a relationship that is comparable to the relationship described in “To His Coy Mistress”.In Macbeth they intently love each other even during the worst of times. This is similar to “To His Coy Mistress” because in the poem the narrator has this love for a woman but the woman is unsure of the whole situation is, unknowing of what she wants. Similarly in“To His Coy Mistress” by Marvell, the speaker is a man who is talking about a highly shy woman whom he wants to love him. The man uses every nerve he has to bring the women into liking him, unlike in Macbeth, who is already married to his wife . Macbeth and “To His Coy Mistress” both demonstrate that blindly following Fate allows people to use others for personal gain, become overly ambitious, but ultimately leads to failure.
Fate and personal gain come into play when experiences happen to change people’s …show more content…
In Macbeth he speaker who is Shakespeare undertakes a wonderful but unfulfilling journey. The aptitude of denial and kingdoms being overtaken are unlike all others .Many ways life can change at a blink of an eye even when you least expect it. Life for macbeth had changed after his wife had died from a sickness and how he learned to cope with the situation. Life for the narrator in to his coy mistress changed when he started to be all sorrowful because the love of his life did not become amused and love him like he said he 'd love her