Macbeth and It's Relevance in Today's Society
“Shakespeare’s plays contain themes that are still relevant today. Macbeth is no exception”. Discuss with reference to at least 2 themes form Macbeth.
Shakespeare’s plays all contain themes that are still relevant to our lives today. Macbeth is no exception. Here Shakespeare utilizes an extensive variety of themes throughout the context of the play and how the characters exploit their actions towards each other. The main theme of “the Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition” is dealing with a blind lust for power capable of anything while the parallel theme of “Guilt and Remorse” deals with the effects of bad deeds on the deepest innards of human nature. Both can be found widely amongst the current generation and therefore are still relevant to a modern audience now.
The main theme in Macbeth “the Corrupting Power of the Unchecked Ambition” is the most powerfully portrayed in the play’s two main characters, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Macbeth is a pathologically ambitious Scottish general who is pushed to commit evil deeds for his desire of power and fortune after three witches foretell his future saying that he will become the King. In such grand plan Lady Macbeth’s determination was instrumental and even stronger than her husband’s. Evidently being the Queen was an irresistible temptation for her power-hungry personality. She spurs her husband to kill mercilessly King Duncan and urges him to be strong in the murder’s outcome. Lady Macbeth becomes a spokesperson for the pair’s ambition and does whatever is necessary to gain a new position for his husband and ultimately herself. Macbeth is left to follow his wife’s instructions but still being the waverer, not sure he wants to proceed with his initial plan. The play also introduces the potential threats to the throne which were ambitious Banquo, Fleance and Macduff. Facing this possibility Macbeth used violence to further his quest for power being tempted to dispose of them.
Ambition and temptation both
Shakespeare’s plays all contain themes that are still relevant to our lives today. Macbeth is no exception. Here Shakespeare utilizes an extensive variety of themes throughout the context of the play and how the characters exploit their actions towards each other. The main theme of “the Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition” is dealing with a blind lust for power capable of anything while the parallel theme of “Guilt and Remorse” deals with the effects of bad deeds on the deepest innards of human nature. Both can be found widely amongst the current generation and therefore are still relevant to a modern audience now.
The main theme in Macbeth “the Corrupting Power of the Unchecked Ambition” is the most powerfully portrayed in the play’s two main characters, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Macbeth is a pathologically ambitious Scottish general who is pushed to commit evil deeds for his desire of power and fortune after three witches foretell his future saying that he will become the King. In such grand plan Lady Macbeth’s determination was instrumental and even stronger than her husband’s. Evidently being the Queen was an irresistible temptation for her power-hungry personality. She spurs her husband to kill mercilessly King Duncan and urges him to be strong in the murder’s outcome. Lady Macbeth becomes a spokesperson for the pair’s ambition and does whatever is necessary to gain a new position for his husband and ultimately herself. Macbeth is left to follow his wife’s instructions but still being the waverer, not sure he wants to proceed with his initial plan. The play also introduces the potential threats to the throne which were ambitious Banquo, Fleance and Macduff. Facing this possibility Macbeth used violence to further his quest for power being tempted to dispose of them.
Ambition and temptation both