Examples Of Power In Macbeth
Everyone in life yearns to be successful however, some people end up more so than others. This is due to the fact that if someone’s goal is unreasonably large then they might take drastic and, unmoral measures to achieve their goals of glory and power. Proven by their rise to power, characters who seek glory are doomed to fail, even when they, in the end, recognize their flaw Within the play Macbeth, Macbeth proves how after achieving glory, acknowledging the mistakes he committed was not enough to keep him from failure. In the play Macbeth, Macbeth wants power and glory so bad that he kills Duncan the current king, and then tries to kill anyone who might come in his way or try and dethrone Macbeth. Macbeth is so power driven that he decides
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In the poem Jerusalem the narrator desires to be king. This is because he believes that being king will be great and he would not encounter any problems since he is a king however, he is wrong with that belief. After becoming king the narrator realizes that for every good there is a bad and for his people who are with him there are also people against him. The narrator admits that his major mistake was wanting to be king by saying, “Oh, who would ever wanna be king” (line 28). Therefore, the narrator strived to be king and he achieved his yearnings, yet his mistake was having that desire from the start and not realizing that anything wrong would come from it. Lastly, even though the narrator admitted and, recognized his mistake he still ended up failing. The narrator ends up failing because he thought being king was easy, so when a major job came like managing an army for war he could not successfully do his job and ended up losing his people, land and, title. In brief, since the narrator wanted to be king, his false assumptions thinking a role as king would be easy, he ended up
In the poem Jerusalem the narrator desires to be king. This is because he believes that being king will be great and he would not encounter any problems since he is a king however, he is wrong with that belief. After becoming king the narrator realizes that for every good there is a bad and for his people who are with him there are also people against him. The narrator admits that his major mistake was wanting to be king by saying, “Oh, who would ever wanna be king” (line 28). Therefore, the narrator strived to be king and he achieved his yearnings, yet his mistake was having that desire from the start and not realizing that anything wrong would come from it. Lastly, even though the narrator admitted and, recognized his mistake he still ended up failing. The narrator ends up failing because he thought being king was easy, so when a major job came like managing an army for war he could not successfully do his job and ended up losing his people, land and, title. In brief, since the narrator wanted to be king, his false assumptions thinking a role as king would be easy, he ended up