A Utopian world is impossible to create because nature would not allow it. Shakespeare’s play shows that no matter how much language players and technology changes human nature overall is misinterpreted. In order to have a perfect world, we need conflicts to occur because imperfection is key to perfection. A Utopian society only revolves in a person's mind. A person might think of a Utopian Society to escape their situation but they do not look at the disadvantages, let us take killing, for example in a Utopian world, killing someone is illegal. If we do not kill anyone, how are we going to find food to keep ourselves alive? We have to kill. Negative aspects of humanity’s basic nature are jealousy, greed and revenge that would always …show more content…
Said by Veronica Roth an American author that published Divergent in 2011, the story will take place in the future and they are trying to create a utopian society. If we had a Utopian which is impossible because our basic nature would never let that day arrive. Macbeth’s ambition to be king also greed and jealousy are the negative aspect of our basic nature. Humanity’s basic nature includes jealousy, greed ambition, which always will create conflicts. This type of nature exists in Macbeth. Macbeth’s ambition is king and for his kids to rule in Scotland. The greed is to jealousy and one’s ambition that would not let one succeed to create a utopian society. As Macbeth said when he invited Duncan to his house, “ as I am his kinsman and his subject strong both against deed: then, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door..” Act 1 Scene7 Line13-15 as Macbeth states that he is his kinsman whom he should protect and shut the doors against the murderer shut the door… “He is the one who is murdering him. Hearing a prediction from the witches does not make him non- culpable, the witches only persuade him to do the guilty act. Even Banquo had believed in the conspiracies at the end, but was really loyal to Duncan which he has asked by Macbeth to commit the guilty act with him, he refused to do so. It shows how you can lose any friendship and loyalty. Macbeth killed his son
In the book “Macbeth” is about a man called Macbeth who was a great soldier that had slain many people that stood in his way. One day Macbeth got a prophecy from three witches that claimed he would become the thane of cawdor and one day king. Once the prophecy of him becoming “Thane of Cawdor” came true he desired more. Macbeth believed that taking the throne would better improve his life. Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth plotted to kill the king in his chamber and blame in on some guards. After Macbeth killed Duncan (The King), he was in fear of what he had done. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth believed that no one would suspect him of killing the king until Macbeth had realized that his best friend Banquo was with him when he was given the prophecy. After he hired a couple of bandits to do away with Banquo to keep his secret. When the time came of Banquo’s death it would haunt Macbeth his entire life which soon led to his downfall. Instead of Macbeth helping others he choose to help himself which led
Utopia would be a place where everyone cared and loved for each other. For example, no one would judge nor criticize another person. No one would fight over different things, thus the prevention of war. One would never feel threatened in their acts if nobody hated them for it.
Human nature is centered covering up one's flaws and Macbeth’s ambition for power lead him to kill King Duncan’s servants to cover up his own murder, “O, yet I do repent me f\of my fury, that I did kill them” (Shakespeare II.3.106-107) Macbeth admitted. He admitted to killing the servants because they “killed” King Duncan only to cover up his deed, shows his acts of deceit. Along with covering flaws, human nature emphasizes on the positives of a bad choice and blocks out the negatives. Macbeth killed Banquo to make sure no one is in the way of him gaining power, and looked beyond betraying and hurting his best friend and Macbeth tells the murders, “It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight” (Shakespeare III.2. 140-141)” expresses Macbeth. Another characteristic of human nature is to hurt ones who support someone you hate, even if they are innocent or have done no wrong. Macbeth decided to murder MacDuff's family out of fear and hatred. Human nature can be scary and deceitful, as shown through Macbeth and his choices that betrayed people close to
The word utopia originates from Sir Thomas More’s novel of the same name, Utopia. Sir Thomas More created the term as an intentional homophone of the word “eutopia”, which is a Greek word meaning “good place”. (Sterling, 2015) “Utopia”, on the other hand, means “no place”, which implies either an impossibility of existence or the results of attempting to bring about such existence. The reasons why a utopia is so destructive to societies are that each person has their own vision of perfection and it is impossible to make everyone agree; if everyone made their own utopias there would be conflict between their objectives. Also, human nature is flawed and cannot accommodate perfection.
In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the audience is shown the relationship between the character of Lady Macbeth and the character of Macbeth as both a supportive and a destructive relationship. This is because Lady Macbeth supports Macbeth’s destructive ambitions such as killing the King so that he, himself could become the King of Scotland. Not only does she support his ambitions, but she also provokes Macbeth to a point of almost “bullying” Macbeth to submit to his darkest of ambitions and pressuring him into killing the king, a decision that he regrets till the end of his days. The writer, Shakespeare, shows this to the audience to illustrate the point that even the best of us can give in to evils such as avarice, temptation and greed and become a monster because of
After hearing the prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth resolves to leave his future up to fate proving his pride and prestige are very important to him. Once he is told of Malcolm being named successor to the throne, Macbeth decides that if he is going to reach his goal he cannot leave it up to luck. Again Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan wavers when he leaves the grand banquet to assess his situation and decide whether he wants to proceed. His arguments include wishing to keep his honor and not kill Duncan for Duncan is there ‘in double trust’. Thus, Macbeth is shown to be clinging to his honor. Finally, Macbeth must stand his ground one last time against his wife who uses tact to emasculate Macbeth. In his final attempt to stop the whole ordeal before it can start Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he does not want to ‘cast aside’ the honor he has just recently received. Unfortunately, Lady Macbeth will have none of what her husband is saying and so convinces Macbeth to follow through with his plan of murdering King Duncan. Hence, the audience is given the first example of how powerful selfish motives are and how quickly they can spread to others along with cause them to perform unthinkable
With Lady Macbeth and Macbeth completing the murder, the people of Scottland need a new king and with the kings sons gone there was only one other person. Macbeth was finally king and had gotten the power he wanted. Corruption of power doesn’t stop once you have done what was needed to get there. Once someone is corrupted they will most likely always be that way. For Macbeth he was corrupt of power till the day he died. As the play goes on, Macbeth does not stop after he acheived the title as king, he began to start killing the people who posed a threat towards him losing the crown. For example, in act 3 it says, “ And with him- To leave no rubs nor botches in the work- Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart. I’ll come to you anon” (3.1.138-144). Macbeth knows that the prophecies the witches told him said that Banquos sons will become king and Macbeth feels threatened. Macbeth sends murders to kill Banquo and his son so they won’t be on the way. Power that corrupts even the nicest people, can change them into something ruthless and can make you kill some of the people you are closest too. Being corrupt with power wil also bring alomg guilt and behavioral changes. For
Ambition has been a driving force of humanity since the beginning of time. Emotions have always had a strong influence on humanity, specifically emotions that tend towards the ruin of others and the gain another. Throughout the history of humanity there have been many examples of people abusing their position of power, to gain something they more than likely did not deserve. Whether it be Hitler and his repulsive ascension to becoming chancellor of Germany, or Kim Jong Un’s obsession with obtaining nuclear weapons at the cost of the people, humanities struggle with greed is unceasing. No one better illustrates this unrelenting thirst for power more than Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is a good, brave, and beloved man at the beginning of the play with the end of his latest battle heralding a new title for him. Fate though, seems to have different plans for the good, albeit, ambitious Macbeth. He is told by the 3 weird sisters that he will one day become king. Thus igniting the flame of greed within Macbeth, signaling his descent into madness and the guilt he feels towards the deeds he has done. Lady Macbeth is much the same in the sense that once she knew of Macbeths own ambition, it hatched her own deep seeded desire for the crown as well. However, there various similarities end with the death of Duncan and the way they both deal with the guilt over what they did. In the play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have similarly great ambition, but this intense avarice in the end leads to their ruin in differing ways.
He fought bravely for his king and his country, and soon after fighting Macbeth encounters the three witches.The witches give Macbeth prophecies on how he will be king and how Banquo’s descendants will be kings.The moment Macbeth learns he will be king he ponders over committing regicide to take the throne for himself. He wavers on the line to kill King Duncan but in the end decides to go along with the plan to kill the king. He immediately regrets his decision and after a while though that regret gets suppressed deep down inside and he begins to feel nothing when he kills the king. Professor Stanley Rachman states that, “The effects of betrayal include shock, loss and grief, morbid pre-occupation, damaged self-esteem, self-doubting, anger.”(Stanley Rachman), when Macbeth commits an act of betrayal against the king Duncan, he turns to a violent individual with no regard for his actions and displays all of the previous qualities that professor Rachman had stated. Macbeth even goes as far as to feel nothing when he kills innocent women and children. This contrasts his earlier ways of murdering people and regretting his actions to him being cold hearted to these matters. When hearing of an opportunity to gain power, Macbeth loses his previous morals and resorts to acting in barbarous manners to try and seize the huge amount of power at stake. Another example of this theme occurs when Macbeth’s friendship with Banquo is shattered. At first in the play, Macbeth and Banquo are showcased as best friends, they fight alongside each other for the glory of their country and people. Banquo even betrays his own ethics for his friendship with Macbeth, but that is a topic that will be brought up later in the text. Macbeth hires assassins to murder his best friend and this is all because the Witches foretold that Banquo’s descendants will be kings. Out of fear of losing the throne Macbeth betrays his friendship
Shakespeare is one of the most influential and famous playwrights of modern times. A major reason his work is loved by so many is because of his insightfulness into the human mind, and one of Shakespeare’s greatest works demonstrating this is Macbeth. This famous play is about nobleman and military man Macbeth and how his tragic choices lead to his inevitable demise. The first and most trying choice that Macbeth has to make is whether or not to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland. Macbeth has to make this decision while being pulled in different directions by two conflicting forces. The force pulling him away from murder is his loyalty and humanity towards Duncan. The other force pulling him towards murder is his loyalty towards Lady Macbeth
A utopia is considered a perfect society where people accept each other for who they are, where everything and everyone is perfect and happy. The perfect utopia can be considered as a perfect world where people get along with each
Living in a utopian society would make the world peaceful and would have a positive impact on the people. Coming from a society where you hear both the good and the bad constantly, only hearing what is good in the world would be better for everyone because the negativity in the world would be stopped. For example, war within countries would be stopped due to living in a world more suitable for people. Living in this world would have a healthier impact on many people as well, just because no one would have to stress over a single thing. This would cause people to be more relaxed every day, and no one would wake up
My last and final reason why I think it is impossible to create a utopian society Is because of lies and deception there were many moments in the novel where the characters had created lies. In the novel Snowball is a character who is shown to be a responsible, caring, idealist, and a boss. In the beginning of the novel, a lot of characters are considered her as a friend, comrade and buddy as seen in chapters 1-7. Everything changed after chapter 7 when Napoleon and the dogs kicked her out. This was all because she got attention. The reason into why she was kicked out was that windmill got destroyed however she had nothing to do with it. Napoleon had created a lie so that his fear of snowball taking his place as leader of the farm will not
Have you ever wondered if a perfect society of possible? A Utopia is a “perfect world”, where there is no conflict and everyone has the same place in the social hierarchy. People don’t have jobs for money, but for the greater good of the community. Everyone gets along, and most utopias are isolated or in remote locations for different reasons. In my opinion, a utopia, a perfect world, is not possible due to human nature.
Utopia is a brilliant novel written by Thomas More. The idea of a utopia seems impossible, how can anyone live in a perfect place when perfection is in the eyes of the beholder? The Utopia in this novel is nothing more than abundant of already established ideas therefore it can’t not truly be a Utopia.