Odysseus also a firm believer in hospitality; Which explains why he was in such distress after learning of the suitors attempt to take everything he’s ever worked for. Guile is a clever form of deceit. Odysseus was full of it; the perfect example was when he introduced himself to Polyphemus. “My name is Nobody; Mother, father, friends/everyone calls me Nobody.” (IX) Odysseus knew that they would they would try to kill Polyphemus, so He gave him this alias because he was aware that Polyphemus would call for help to the other Cyclopes, and when he did he would sound like an idiot. He also used his guile on Calypso.
In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, death is a reoccurring factor. Hamlet, who has recently faced the death of his father, is stricken with grief as he does not understand exactly what death is. Elizabethans all believed in the afterlife. Everyone strongly believed in ghosts, God, witches, and eventually ending up in either heaven or hell. Due to these beliefs and the complexity of Hamlet’s character, it is inevitable that his thoughts of death would wander outside the lines of his religion.
Macbeth’s ambition to become king, which is a position of great control over scotland’s affairs, causes him to lose control in his own life. In order to attain the throne, Macbeth commits murder, and the resulting guilt overwhelms and takes over his life. He becomes paranoid, and as he attempts to secure his throne by removing anyone whom he suspects to be a threat, he neglects Lady Macbeth, who had ultimate control over him so that he lost control in his life when Lady Macbeth distanced from him and died. Even at the beginning of the play, Macbeth had become submissive to the fate that the witches had prophesized for him, such that he did not account for the choices that he makes in life anymore and lost control. Macbeth becomes victim to guilt when he kills Duncan for the throne, and guilt then takes over his life, leaving him without control of his own behaviors.
The vicious chain reaction of fear continues. After Macbeth kills Duncan, he is too scared to even carry the daggers back into the king’s chamber. He is completely surrounded by the immense fear which takes root in his mind and repeatedly reminds him of the fact that the regicide will eventually be discovered. In order to relieve this horror, Macbeth has no choices but to blame the murderous deed upon the two drunken chamberlains who are instigated by both Duncan’s sons. After he is successfully crowned as the king of Scotland, the prior fear fades away and begets another fear which forms images in Macbeth’ head with the previous scene of the day where him and Banquo listen to the prophecies of the three witches.
In conclusion, Macbeth is one of many people that is clearly a good man that has been corrupted. Ambition, greed, and power get the best of him. In many characters, ambition is hard to deny. The obstacles in his way seemed trivial and made his goal easy to grasp. In these days, someone who did such a thing might plead insane if taken to court.
This characteristic causes him many difficulties in such a chaotic world. But, it is this characteristic that also pushes him to do more investigating about Wellington’s death – he cannot rest until he finds out the truth. When there is no order in his life Chris feels physically sick (he gets nauseous and begins groaning). In order to avoid that, he pursues the truth all the way from Swindon to London. Finally, even if Christopher was unable to empathize with people and required order, there would be nothing to the story if he wasn’t exceptionally perseverant.
and quit my sight...Which thou dost glare with!”, a quote that displays Macbeth running in an endless stream of self-doubt and conflict over the death of Banquo. Many believe this scene to be one that of the king’s last sense of morality, the feeling of pain and hallucination of fearing the loss of power that murdering a friend seems justifiable. The lack of honor Macbeth held for his subjects continued on, his interests never aligning with the responsibilities of the crown, but who to be rid of in order to maintain it. Not even in the last few moments of his life did Macbeth hold honor toward Scotland or the respect that is entailed by his majesty. “Then yield thee, coward,” Macduff began in the final fight scene.
He starts off as a benevolent man who has honor, but then greed overtakes him. He is thrown ideas of him becoming a more powerful man and he takes these into his own hands. His ambitious personality starts to leak through, his need for power pushes him to do unimaginable things. He kills the king, Duncan to soothe his hunger for power. Nevertheless one murder didn't comfort him, he thinks he needs to secure his position.
Once power has reached the wrong hands it can be abused. Macbeth is a man who shows the terrible effects of ambition, guilt, and the lacks strength. To gain his power he commits murder, he has a weak mindset, and he lets his fear take over him. In “Macbeth” Macbeth gains power by having the urge to kill. The more he does it the more he feels it gets easier to do and the more he thinks he needs to do it to get what he wants, which is to become king.
Again Macbeth’s conscience comes into play when he says, “We still have judgement here; that we but teach / Bloody instruction, which being taught return / To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice,” (I, vii, 8-10). He knows what he is doing wrong and that there will be consequences even before he murders Duncan. Macbeth is a weak man however, and ignores his conscience; he instead gives in to his power-hungry wife’s greed and allows his ambition to lead him on a dastardly journey. Although it may seem as though Duncan’s murder was not only Macbeth’s doing, he had a