There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed” (Gandhi). This, to me, means that if you work your hardest out of need, the universe will provide and you’ll be satisfied but the more you work out of greed, no matter what you are given you’ll never be satisfied. Shakespeare tells us, the audience, in his play, Macbeth, that greed and betrayal might get you something in that instant but in the long run, nothing but chaos and loss comes from it.
Right at the beginning of the play, there’s fighting going on all over the place and the whole reason being a man’s greed leading to betrayal. Shakespeare tells us this through the words of Captain when he was talking about the progress of the war when he says, “ The merciless …show more content…
Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!” (I.iii.72-76). Once again, Macbeth is consumed by greed and goes after his best friend, Banquo, and his son, Fleance, after the funeral. Macbeth uses the fact that Banquo’s sons will be kings after him and not his sons to give into his greed and kill his best friend. After Banquo is killed, Macbeth starts hallucinating about him and says, “The table’s full” (III.iv.58) when he is asked to have a seat at the conference because he sees Banquo’s ghost in his seat. As always, lady macbeth covers for him and says he had this problem since his childhood. He might’ve got a little assurance that he’ll stay in power a little longer as the outcome for killing his best friend. He has to deal with the trauma that comes with it and it hurts more than he imagined in the …show more content…
His greed leads him to ignore his one and only love when she needs him most. “If thou speak’st false, Upon the next tree shall thou hang alive Till famine cling thee. If thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. I pull in resolution and begin To doubt th' equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth. “Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane” and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane”(V.v.44-51), says Macbeth when he is told of the soldiers marching on the castle carrying branches. He gets mad and threatens the Servant if the news is false when the whole thing could’ve been prevented if he just didn’t give into his greed. If only he spent his time on her and not that throne. Macbeth dies trying to stay in power because he just wanted more. One of my favorite quotes is, “For greed all nature is too little” (Lucius Seneca). The quote tells us that when it comes greed, it doesn’t matter how much one is given, they still want more. Macbeth was made thane of Cawdor, yet he still killed the king. He became king yet killed Banquo and ignored his wife in her time of need. Only chaos and loss comes from greed in the long run. Macbeth became greedy and lost himself, his wife, his cousin, his best friend and in the end, his
Right at the beginning of the play, there’s fighting going on all over the place and the whole reason being a man’s greed leading to betrayal. Shakespeare tells us this through the words of Captain when he was talking about the progress of the war when he says, “ The merciless …show more content…
Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!” (I.iii.72-76). Once again, Macbeth is consumed by greed and goes after his best friend, Banquo, and his son, Fleance, after the funeral. Macbeth uses the fact that Banquo’s sons will be kings after him and not his sons to give into his greed and kill his best friend. After Banquo is killed, Macbeth starts hallucinating about him and says, “The table’s full” (III.iv.58) when he is asked to have a seat at the conference because he sees Banquo’s ghost in his seat. As always, lady macbeth covers for him and says he had this problem since his childhood. He might’ve got a little assurance that he’ll stay in power a little longer as the outcome for killing his best friend. He has to deal with the trauma that comes with it and it hurts more than he imagined in the …show more content…
His greed leads him to ignore his one and only love when she needs him most. “If thou speak’st false, Upon the next tree shall thou hang alive Till famine cling thee. If thy speech be sooth, I care not if thou dost for me as much. I pull in resolution and begin To doubt th' equivocation of the fiend That lies like truth. “Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane” and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane”(V.v.44-51), says Macbeth when he is told of the soldiers marching on the castle carrying branches. He gets mad and threatens the Servant if the news is false when the whole thing could’ve been prevented if he just didn’t give into his greed. If only he spent his time on her and not that throne. Macbeth dies trying to stay in power because he just wanted more. One of my favorite quotes is, “For greed all nature is too little” (Lucius Seneca). The quote tells us that when it comes greed, it doesn’t matter how much one is given, they still want more. Macbeth was made thane of Cawdor, yet he still killed the king. He became king yet killed Banquo and ignored his wife in her time of need. Only chaos and loss comes from greed in the long run. Macbeth became greedy and lost himself, his wife, his cousin, his best friend and in the end, his