Because of this, he decides he must kill Banquo, so that there will be no heir. “Macbeth plots the murder of Banquo, out of jealousy and insecurity.” (Hompi 1) This is obviously an absurd idea, and prior to Macbeth’s murder of King Duncan he never would have considered it as a solution. Shakespeare uses this to show how power corrupts even the best of people. It is obvious that this is still a problem in society today, as people start off with good intentions but slowly get sidetracked. Before long, their objectives have changed completely.
It seems like the only way out of certain situations for the emperor, like fighting in the Colosseum, is to fool others in order to gain their respect or love. Machiavellian leadership states that leaders tend to pretend to have virtues to deceive for power, and to complete unlawful business in private in order to succeed. Commodus naturally makes the decision to lie on the throne. Simultaneously, he deceives himself because thinks that his decisions would benefit him both long and short term. He throws himself into situations, believing that he would always win since he is the emperor, but ends up failing drastically in the end.
For example, in the poem “Ozymandias”, the king/ruler probably became too concerned with his power and he forgot about the prior goals he set. This most likely led to the destruction of his “works”. Macbeth somewhat demonstrates the same qualities as the ruler in the poem. Macbeth becomes too overly concerned with power and he forgets why exactly he is taking these actions. An example of this is his lack of any legitimate reasons for killing King Duncan and obtaining the throne except for his own ambition and greed to become king.
(1.3.71)” Banquo also doubts the intension of the witches, he believes that evil always tells one part of the truth in order to earn one’s trust and lead him to destruction. Banquo warns Macbeth, ”But ‘tis strange./And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,/ the instruments of darkness tell us truths,/win us with honest trifles, to betray’s/In deepest consequence. (1.3.124-128)” On the other hand, Macbeth ignored his friends warning and believes in what the witches say. He is over whelmed by his ambition to be king, he said to himself,”Glamis, and the thane of Cawfor!/The greatest is behind. (1.3.118-119).””Two truths are told/,as happy prologues to the swelling act/of the imperial theme.
He does have his own selfish reasoning for revolting even though his main goal is to undermine the Party and Big Brother. Openly rebelling wasn't his method either; he would do his rebelling in secret which isn't really brave. In the end of the novel he turns on Julie and is no longer against Big Brother but now supporting him “And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean
Machiavelli has strongly persuasive arguments on leadership since he apprehends in his famous book ‘The Prince’ in chapter 17 the human nature very accurately. He reveals that how crucial it is for a prince being aware of the dangers within the city in order to achieve dominance in the state. He offers a possible threat to the prince as people’s in sincerity. Since human beings are inherently self-seeker and ungrateful, they may easily let down the prince in case of a dangerous situation. (Machiavelli 71) Therefore, when it comes to people’s benefits, the rupture of relations between the prince and his people may be broken.
How does Shakespeare explore the theme of revenge in The Tempest? Revenge appears to be quite an important theme in The Tempest, as it is at the heart of the play; Prospero wanting to get revenge on Antonio, Alonso and the other men, for banishing him from Milan. Although Prospero’s revenge is the most notable case of vengeance in the play, there are other examples, coming from Caliban and Antonio, as in some ways, they both want revenge back on Prospero. Most examples of revenge in the play also contain significant links with the theme of power; to get revenge you are gaining back the power that has been taken from you. It appears through Shakespeare’s writing, that he is depicting his thoughts and attitudes towards life and ruling in the Elizabethan era.
Always doing the right thing by others led Beowulf to his death, showing that what is believed to be a virtue will not help a kingdom to thrive, but destroys it. However, the Prince was willing to cross the lines of moral goodness in order to maintain his leadership and increase opulence of his kingdom. People are not always committed, and when they don’t believe, they must be made to believe by force. (Bondanella and Musa 258). The Prince’s authority was more effective than Beowulf, due to the nature of morality, or lack thereof, necessary to be a prosperous leader and his judgment was directly affected by the environment and size of the community.
Which everyone knows will lead to his downfall. To prove this is the reason, while analyzing the play, the points that come to mind are that Hamlet only acts when he does not think about the consequences of his actions, and when he accuses himself of over thinking, catching himself in the act, or even when Hamlet had a clear chance to kill Claudius but stop and thinks of all the things that will happen to him. From all these points it is clear that the reason Hamlet delays to avenge his father’s death is because he is in a deep state where he “over-thinks” or “over-philosophizes” which can suggest that he is in fact “thought-sick”. Wolfgang Von Goethe presents the point that the delay is a natural struggle, of a “lovely, pure and most sensitive nature, without the strength of
Consequently, we might even have more time to consume for analyzing what and where may the terrorists’ attacks be. However, if we wasted our time on finding the correct prisoners and torture them, we are not only having a risk of killing them, but a risk of receiving lies, for they might tell lies to stop torturers from continue torturing them, or nothing at all as well. Another case that would be extremely likely to happen is that criminals who are tortured begin to hate the world much severer. As a result, they would become determined that they would say nothing about their plans. Furthermore, they would be viewed as potential risks when they are out from the jail since the more they hate the world, the higher the potential of constructing evil attacks by them would be.