Johan Lehrer's Macbeth: Self-Control
Lady Macbeth
How many problems can you think of that could have been easily avoided if you had applied self-control? In Johan Lehrer’s newspaper article “Don’t! The Secret of Self-Control” kids are experimented on how they cope with their struggle to resist a treat. If the kids wrestled the temptation, they received double the marshmallows, however, if they forfeited, they only get one. Similarly, Lady Macbeth was ambitious about becoming queen, the marshmallow of Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth, if she controlled herself, she got the throne, otherwise she suffered.
Lady Macbeth has a supernatural strength that she shows in the beginning of the play: her meticulous planning on the killing of Duncan. In Lehrer’s article, the kids are ambitious
How many problems can you think of that could have been easily avoided if you had applied self-control? In Johan Lehrer’s newspaper article “Don’t! The Secret of Self-Control” kids are experimented on how they cope with their struggle to resist a treat. If the kids wrestled the temptation, they received double the marshmallows, however, if they forfeited, they only get one. Similarly, Lady Macbeth was ambitious about becoming queen, the marshmallow of Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth, if she controlled herself, she got the throne, otherwise she suffered.
Lady Macbeth has a supernatural strength that she shows in the beginning of the play: her meticulous planning on the killing of Duncan. In Lehrer’s article, the kids are ambitious