Stalin greatly feared older members of the party too as they knew the truth of Stalin’s rise to power and what Lenin’s testament contained which would have ruined Stalin’s career. Under Yagoda’s influence of suggesting communists questioned Stalin, his paranoia further developed and caused the emergence of the great terror. Undoubtedly Stalin felt he had to perform the mass purges because of his paranoia that he would be removed from power. As Stalin was in control this must be the main cause of the great terror as his desire to remain in power was the drive for allowing the great terror to happen. The Congress of victors was a short term cause of the great terror and only added to the main cause of Stalin’s paranoia.
When he has done the deed he changes into the man he never imagined he would become. Once at the throne he is unable to rule without being a tyrant because his response to every situation is violence. Macbeth said, “I am in blood, stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”(Act III scene 1). Although he is mad with power he is never comfortable being a criminal and is unable to cope with the psychological consequences of his actions. Though both
He devised a plan to murder the current king, King Duncan. His strong will to have what he wants has taken over his good habits and good willed heart and turned him into an ambitious man who wants everything. Once the murder has been committed and some days have passed the guilty trip sets in hard. Macbeth tries to coop with the stress but his guilty conscience makes his mind spin. Macbeth begins to kill more to acquire the throne of Cawdor.
This action leads to him being considered a tragic hero. Creon’s human flaw of arrogance causes him to ignore reasoning and advice and listen only to his own thoughts. He states, "My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city". He is afraid to go back on his word because it will hurt his pride and he is afraid that it will cause him to lose power with his subjects. This action causes him to lose everyone that he loves.
This shows that he has ambition as he is already thinking ahead to how he could possibly achieve these prophecies in the quickest way possible. But it also shows a certain underlying malevolence of his character, as no-one has told him that he must kill Duncan to become king, just that the witches have told him that he will become king. This shows that although at the moment he is very logical and sane, it does show that he already has the awful idea, even at this very early stage. He does show a very strong sense of morality here, as he is completely and utterly dreading the idea of Duncan’s murder, and even says that real dangers are less horrible than what he is thinking of in his mind. This first soliloquy also shows that he is clever, as the way that he puts his words together, using rhetorical questions, metaphor’s and alliteration to get his point across.
However, the need and urge for power overcame his senses and he was disloyal to both of them. Deception and dishonesty are a big role in this play also. Without deception, there would be no betrayal. Macbeth is deceptive whenever he pretends to be a trustworthy person to the king, the king’s son, and also Banquo. However, all the while he is greedily planning their deaths.
With the witches’ prophecies mulling over in his mind, and knowing that he was not the successor of the throne, he knew he had to take matters into his own hands. With the support and persuasion of Lady Macbeth, he kills King Duncan and gains his kingship. When Banquo makes his vow to find out who killed Duncan, Macbeth knew he had to silence him. After Macbeth is named king, he seeks out hired murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Macbeth does this because he is afraid that Banquo will get in the way of his new title and Fleance, because he is prophesied to be king.
This is the starting point of Macbeth wanting to push every inch of morality aside. Although we know inside Macbeth was a good man before the prophecy the ambition is placing the interesting thought of murder in his head. After seeing Malcolm crowned Prince
Victor’s action to run away caused William’s death and made Justine look like the killer when the evidence was planted from the blood. I see it as Victor was never going to be truly happy because there was so much he really didn’t know and could not handle the whole situation. People during the Enlightenment tried to handle many things on their own but certain things should just not be touched or you will find out the hard way. It was like finding a million dollars in the street and keeping it thinking no one would ever trace back to finding you because it was something that huge. He paid his price and it was a great one, the role of God is not to be played
No one knows whether Colby should be killed or not. However, in the story the larger group of people had always the power to decide Colby’s future and even his death. Because this group made the choice and agreed to kill Colby, he must die. And Colby who is an individual cannot win against the pressure group. Furthermore, the majority group’s power leads to corruption, they are correct because they believed they are correct and no one in the story can be against that, so they did not “pay attention to this argument”(1) about murdering Colby.