Personal power has the ability to be essential to greatness‚ and at the same time is able to destroy a person’s nature. In the drama Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ the main character‚ Macbeth‚ becomes corrupt through power that he gains. The play shows that even someone who starts out like Macbeth and does not crave power‚ will do terrible things to gain authority and power. The play begins with the characters King Duncan and Malcolm talking about a "good and hardy soldier" (Act I: ii: 4).
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Shakespeare’s bloody and tragic play Macbeth‚ written in the seventeenth century‚ portrays blind ambition‚ appearances can be deceiving and corruption of power. It follows the reasons behind Macbeth’s downfall. The play analyzes how other outside forces can easily change the path of ones desires and decisions. The witches’ intrusion‚ Lady Macbeth’s manipulation and Macbeth’s dark desires all interfere and manipulate Macbeth’s decisions. He goes from being praised as a noble soldier to a traitor and
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Lord of the Flies Analysis of Corruption Essay Can power truly corrupt someone or are they borne corrupt? William Golding‚ the author of Lord of the Flies‚ starts the novel in the midst of the war where a group of young British boys get isolated on an island. Throughout the book‚ the boys grow more savage as long as they continue to stay on the island. Jack is corrupted the most out of all the boys by the power he feels he needs. Jack becomes more corrupt by power and less stable as a person.
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Emma Conway 2 December 2011 Period 1 Similar yet Different The Lord of the Rings is a memorable story and is often the base idea for scenes in many different movies. One of the movies that play on different scenes from The Lord of the Rings is Harry Potter. Similar scenes from The Lord of the Rings can be seen in many scenes from the Harry Potter book and move series. The similarities can be seen in different objects‚ characters‚ creatures‚ and situations throughout the series. I noticed
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Whoever reads Harry Potter or Lord of The Ring should also discover the other one too. Both are the same basic “hero’s journey” archetype with two great main character which I really love: Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins. There are certain similarities between them which interested me a lot. Like Frodo‚ Harry is an English orphan; and both of them discover their destinies as reluctant heroes after a birthday: Harry after his own while Frodo after Bilbo’s 111th birthday party. Since then‚ Harry entered
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Novel review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring This review will discuss my response to a literary work which is entitled The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that is written by Professor JRR Tolkien. This novel is the first volume of the lord of the ring trilogy. It consists of 10 chapters and was first published in 1954. This novel is about a young hobbit‚ Frodo Baggins‚ and his eight journey companions to Mordor in order to destroy a ring. This novel will be reviewed
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Tolkien has experienced a resurgence of interest in the last two decades-in a large part thanks to Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. However I do not wish to look at the movies‚ or indeed at any of Tolkien’s more prevalent work. I wish to focus on his poetry‚ the poems woven into the narrative of his popular novels (including revised versions published in The History of Middle-earth series) as well as his stand-alone pieces that may have little to do with
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Odyssey‚ "Greenpeace Gets a New Leader"‚ and Great Expectations‚ those in positions of power use their authority and status in both positive and negative ways. Across all three texts‚ power is used to inspire‚ corrupt and oppress. In Homer’s epic poem‚ The Odyssey‚ Odysseus uses his power to corrupt and persuade his shipmates. Odysseus is often portrayed as the hero of the story‚ even though he constantly used his power and authority to endanger his crewmates and others around him. An example of this
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The lost king from Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings series‚ having passed the first threshold‚ takes on his labyrinth and rescue‚ ultimately accomplishing his heroic deeds. Although Aragorn follows his own path to kleos he travels not alone but‚ like all heroes‚ with friends otherwise known as his hero partners. For Aragorn a company consisting of an Elf‚ a Dwarf‚ a Man‚ four Hobbits‚ and one Wizard to give mystical insight‚ accompany him on this voyage while also passing as a hero partner for his companions’
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Yet if you succeed‚ then our power is diminished‚ and Lothlórien will fade‚ and the tide of Time will sweep it away” (472). This quote‚ said by the Lady Galadriel‚ showed her understanding of the power of the One Ring. The One Ring had the unprecedented power to corrupt the person carrying the ring‚ called the ring-bearer‚ and turn them against their own will. The Ring messes with the holder’s mind and makes them turn to evil ways. The book The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien tells of the
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