Examples Of Misunderstood Emotions In Literature

Having or desiring power and fame can often lead to immoral decisions and eventually a major downfall. This can be seen in many literary works, including the tragic play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. This play focuses in on the ability of power corrupting a person. After hearing the promising prophecy from the witches, Macbeth does whatever it takes to gain control and become king. This includes him murdering King Duncan and many other innocent people.

The descriptions of Phil in “The Company Man” are sardonically accusatory of the present way people live in society. Goodman makes light of how Phil is a heart attack waiting to happen, his seventy-hour workweeks and egg sandwiches. “Of course,”

Corporation life consists of putting work and your career in front of everything else, and author Ellen Goodman uses her writing to warn others of its downsides. In the passage “The Company Man”, Goodman uses many rhetorical devices to illustrate her displeasure and irritation towards Phil. Goodman incorporates a unique style of diction, repetition, and anecdotes in her writing to achieve her emphasis on Phil’s lifestyle and to caution the reader about prioritizing work over personal health and family. In the brilliantly written piece of satire, "The Company Man", Ellen Goodman discreetly attacks the atypical hard-working middle class men in the 1980's society, who tend to be blinded by the illusion of wealth and prosperity and forget what is truly important – their own families and their own values. It seems that almost everyday on the news there is a new death mentioned of someone taken far too soon. There are always different stories behind them

Sacrificing one’s well being for personal gain is a mutual theme found in Macbeth and Into the Wild. In Macbeth, Macbeth has made his

Macbeth’s unfettered lust for power led to his biggest detriment, the transformation into a man living in fear who cannot possibly escape this continuous cycle of trepidation. Though Macbeth may hide these fears behind a strong exterior throughout the play, it remains a primary emotion and potent motivating force in his life.

The play of Macbeth has themes in it which can be associated with people who live in our world today. In Macbeth we see a king who abuses his power and uses it for the wrong reasons. He almost always get away with it. Despite the fact that there were people that were suspicious of Macbeth, he was never brought to justice with some of his deeds. In this play we also find out about the lengths that Macbeth went to, so he could become king and to also stay as king. The similarities between people in today’s society are that the lengths that they will go to,

Throughout the story of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth acts in a much despised manner: he becomes a murderer and later, when king of Scotland, a tyrant. Many who have read or seen the play are left wondering how a man’s whole approach to life can change; how Macbeth turned from the hero whom all adored, to the tyrant who was hated and ended up a lone man, fighting for his life.

In “The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman, The author attacks a typical hardworking middle classmen. This piece portrays diction, imagery and tone in order to exemplify the intended theme the author wants to convey. With these attributes, the theme that those who tend to be blinded by the illusion of wealth and tend to forget those who are important in their lives are destined to die lonely and disregarded by those closest to them.

Finally, their ambition makes them to do the bad things. Lady Macbeth is another ambitious character of Macbeth. She is an important midpoint for Macbeth to be more ambitious. Moreover, in Thomas’s article “(Un)sexing Lady Macbeth: gender, power and visual rhetoric in her graphic afterlives”, she writes about how does Lady Macbeth simulates Macbeth to kill the king so that he could be the new king, and how does her ambition affect Macbeth. Furthermore, in the novel 1984, Oceania’s government makes people live in a hard life because they use telescreens to watch people’s life.

Phil is a husband with three kids who recently died, “...finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning.” Ellen Goodman, the author, portrays Phil in a negative light. In, “The Company Man,” Goodman uses repetition and descriptive diction to convey Phil (the focus of the piece) as a distant, work-oriented husband. To start, Goodman uses repetition to convey Phil as a distant person.

American journalist,orator, and commentator, Ellen Goodman in her essay, “ The company man” criticizes Phil, who is created to fit the typical hardworking and work oriented man in society. This essay was used to describe a man who worked himself to death. Goodman uses this essay to condemn how angered she is by first using an extended anecdote that shows the life of a man who puts work in front of his family, she then uses parallelism through sentence structure to draw attention to how irritated she is by it,and lastly repetition to emphasize how his work consumed his life which allows the reader to relate and show what has commonly been accepted in society. The author is very precise on the amount of information she allows the reader to

Macbeth the play wrote by William Shakespeare is a tragedy from the Elizabethan era which is set in Medieval Scotland. The antagonist has inner battles between right and wrong when he is tempted with the idea of being King, Which is implanted in his brain when the Three Weird Sisters tell him his future. When Macbeth transitions in to a tyrant he loses most of his noble qualities; the only two qualities of determination and courage stay with him, but they are for selfish reasons. Contradicting the whole idea of being noble. He stays determined but to keep himself alive, he doesn’t lose his courage but his courage is to murder someone for his own benefits, and he loses his noble title through his actions as the play progresses.

I believe that fear shapes how we act and how we shape literature, and culture. I will discuss three different works from different cultures throughout different time periods that help to demonstrate how fear shapes how we deal with issues that conflict with our morality and death.

Macbeth acquires many of the similar qualities existent within humans in society. In today's society, it is commonly believed success comes to those striving to work the hardest, often sparking a possible downfall.

Macbeth also to me teaches you that you can’t really be greedy or try to think you have all the power. Why? Macbeth