Macbeth Corruption Research Paper

Corruption Sani Abacha, a Nigerian military dictator and politician, was tied to human rights violations and corruption, he was considered the world’s fourth most corrupt leader. He was linked to taking money from the Nigerian government and keeping it for himself, the estimated total was 1.4 billion dollars. Corruption is common amongst people with substantial amounts of power, whether the corruption may be linked with murders, money transfers, human rights violations, or rigged elections, corruption occurs because people fear the leader and stopping them once the corruption has begun. When someone is introduced to power, they are overwhelmed and feel it is necessary to become corrupt, this can be compared to William Shakespeare 's Macbeth
Macbeth is loyal to the king and land of Scotland at the beginning of the play, he comes back from battle and Scotland honors the great general Macbeth. “When he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” (1.2.78). Duncan starts discussing how when the army comes back from battle, noble Macbeth always comes back from battle victorious and the kingdom honors him. When Macbeth goes into battle, he knows he will come back from battle victorious and everyone in Scotland will honor him, Duncan believes that Macbeth is his greatest general and will always come back from battle victorious. Macbeth is loyal to Duncan and the land of Scotland at the beginning of the play, until the three witches prophecies cause him to be feared by everyone in Scotland. Lady Macbeth questions her husbands manliness and willingness to carry out a murder. “Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” (1.5.16-18). Lady Macbeth questions if Macbeth is too kind to murder someone, and questions if she would have too do it herself or if Macbeth would be man enough to actually commit a murder against one of his dearest friends. Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth is too kind and unwilling to commit a murder against someone who he is
Through the course of the murders Macbeth committed, he really didn’t think committing these murders would end up with him being killed, although going through all this he realized after his final murder, everyone knew he committed