In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, multiple connections can be made between the characters of Macbeth and my personal experiences, other texts, and events that have occurred around the world. Shakespeare examines human conditions and traits that are relevant to my experience with manipulative people, the T.V. show “Pretty Little Liars”, and Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany. It is noticeable/ easy to notice that in modern day there are many/ multiple connection that can be made/ inferred to Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth.
Through my own personal experiences, it is clear to recognise there are connections I can easily compare to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In my experiences with manipulative people I have found that they have the same deceptive and …show more content…
show Pretty Little Liars, It is clear to recognise the connections between the characters in both the show and Macbeth. Macbeth has several comparisons to another ‘blood thirsty’ ambitious character in the show, named ‘A’. Both characters, Macbeth and ‘A’ use other people to their advantage to help do their deeds, and the deeds for both are usually murder. ‘A’ is an unidentified character, who secretly gives clues of who she is to 4 girls, ordering people on her ‘team’ to help her. This is comparable to when Macbeth orders murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Clearly ‘A’ just like Macbeth hires others to do all the dirty work, while they just sit and watch. In this act it is shown that Macbeth has taken after his wife as he uses the same tactic on the murderers as she did on him, he convinces the murderers that Banquo is dreadful and that he made their lives terrible, making them want him to suffer and help kill Banquo Macbeth says, “Know that it was he, in the times past, which held you so under fortune, which you thought had been our innocent self” (3.1.78-79). As well as, “Are you so gospelled to pray for this good man and for his issue, whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave and beggared yours forever?” (3.1. 87-88). Macbeth asked Banquo many polite and simple harmless questions, but what Banquo doesn’t know is that he is secretly planning his murder. This is a lot like ‘A’ secretly finding information out about where the 4 girls are in order to give them a clue, “Ride you this afternoon?” (3.1.18) as well as “Goes Fleance with you?” (3.1.37). In both texts both ‘A’ and Macbeth shown themselves as a dominate character and take on a leader role, as they both were in charge of the
Through my own personal experiences, it is clear to recognise there are connections I can easily compare to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In my experiences with manipulative people I have found that they have the same deceptive and …show more content…
show Pretty Little Liars, It is clear to recognise the connections between the characters in both the show and Macbeth. Macbeth has several comparisons to another ‘blood thirsty’ ambitious character in the show, named ‘A’. Both characters, Macbeth and ‘A’ use other people to their advantage to help do their deeds, and the deeds for both are usually murder. ‘A’ is an unidentified character, who secretly gives clues of who she is to 4 girls, ordering people on her ‘team’ to help her. This is comparable to when Macbeth orders murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Clearly ‘A’ just like Macbeth hires others to do all the dirty work, while they just sit and watch. In this act it is shown that Macbeth has taken after his wife as he uses the same tactic on the murderers as she did on him, he convinces the murderers that Banquo is dreadful and that he made their lives terrible, making them want him to suffer and help kill Banquo Macbeth says, “Know that it was he, in the times past, which held you so under fortune, which you thought had been our innocent self” (3.1.78-79). As well as, “Are you so gospelled to pray for this good man and for his issue, whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave and beggared yours forever?” (3.1. 87-88). Macbeth asked Banquo many polite and simple harmless questions, but what Banquo doesn’t know is that he is secretly planning his murder. This is a lot like ‘A’ secretly finding information out about where the 4 girls are in order to give them a clue, “Ride you this afternoon?” (3.1.18) as well as “Goes Fleance with you?” (3.1.37). In both texts both ‘A’ and Macbeth shown themselves as a dominate character and take on a leader role, as they both were in charge of the