Macbeth and Animal Farm Essay

In the play Macbeth and the book Animal farm, the idea of power is well presented by Shakespeare and Orwell. In which both lead to the key protagonists gaining complete power, and it leading to complete corruption. Macbeth was written between 1603-1606. It was written to please the newly throned King James IV of Scotland. This is evident in the play as Shakespeare shows regicide would have been feasible, but unthinkable to the Jacobean audience, who had lived through the gunpowder plot aimed at targeting King James. Such acts were a concern of that time. Shakespeare is giving a clear message that such acts will only lead to self destruction. In comparison Animal farm, an algory for the Russian revolution was written by George Orwell in 1945. Animal farm follows the role of Stalin in the set of a farm in England. Orwell does this to show that communism like the communism observed in the Russian revolution can happen anywhere.

     In Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of Macbeth the main character Macbeth is driven from his status as a well respected warrior and lord of not one, but two Scottish regions to a dishonest, unloyal murderer. Macbeth gets caught in a web of lies and vile acts of murder in which he brings about his own demise. His criminal actions lead up to his tragic ending of life. ‘ They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bearlike I must fight the course.’ His great ambition and gullibility of the witches predictions are two of the biggest factors of his downfall;however, Lady Macbeth was probably the biggest influence in the whole tragedy.

The notorious Shakespearean play Macbeth illustrates a natural evil and greed for power present in the human race. Even in modern times, society relates to Macbeth as people are consistently striving for a higher rank and power. Sometimes, people are even prepared to get into difficult situations to achieve their goals, and this gives rise to conflicts. There are three main types of conflict present in the Macbeth play: man vs man, man vs nature, and man vs self.

"Macbeth" is a tragic play that was written by William Shakespeare in the early 1600’s. It revolved around the character Macbeth and his urge to become king of Scotland. Macbeth had to do anything possible to become the king including murder, lying, and deception. However, Macbeth committed these evil deeds due to some influential people in his life. Between Macbeth’s wife persuading him to do anything to become king and the witches prophesying over him causes Macbeth to try and bury the past and control the future.

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features

A student demonstrates understanding of how relationships between composer, responder, text and context shape meaning.

Macbeth and Animal Farm are both classic pieces of literature that have been studied across numerous of generations. Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare back in the early 17th century as a play to entertain various members of English royalty. Over three hundred years later, in 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm with the purpose to criticise the Soviet Union. Macbeth tells the story of Lord Macbeth, the savage methods he used to reach the throne and be crowned the King of Scotland as well as his subsequent rule as a tyrant. Animal Farm is about a pig named Napoleon, his violent rise to power as leader of Animal Farm and his progression into a corrupt,

Macbeth and animal farm share a very similar theme but each has their own distinct setting, language and enhancement of scenes. In Animal farm the idea of power corrupts is enhanced through languages techniques such as imagery and alliteration. These techniques are used to give detail and information, evoking the reader’s imagination. Whereas, in Macbeth the scenes are enhanced through cinematic devices: editing, zooms, types of shots, lighting and etc. the setting in both text are also different, the animal farm the story takes place on a farm in England. This farm becomes a dystopian setting after Napoleon gains more and more power. In Kurzel’s Macbeth the story takes place in Scotland in medieval times, where wars, castles still existed.

Then I talked about language and how that was connected to the genre. When it came to language and how by writing this book in letters showed its importance because one can see through the letters how difficult and the people felt and thought about not being to write properly. Not only did it fuse their ability to communicate but complicated day to day tasks. Lastly I referred back to communication and how that connected to genre. For this one I would say the genre showed the most effectively what the lack of communication does to people.

We all long to write like someone else, maybe it is like authors such as Mark Twain , J.R.R Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway or Shakespeare- although I think the last one is much more like a dream than an actual aspiration-but I desire to write like Stephen King and Stephen Krashen , and even attain to imitate the manner in which they seem to analyze information, and translate such material in a form of a well-developed argument. As a consequence, it seems that the purpose of this summer assignment was accomplished , as according to Ms. Olaerts the purpose was to “give you an introduction to the kinds of reading you will see throughout the course and types of analysis that will be required of that reading.”

The “Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare tells a tale of deceit, murder, and ambition, beginning with a cutthroat rise to power, followed by calamitous downfall. At the start of the play, Macbeth is a brave and loyal captain in King Duncan’s army, but after three witches prophesize that he himself will become the king of Scotland, and that those born of a friend, Banquo, will be king after him, Macbeth is overtaken by ambition and gluttony. Instigated by his wife and his own lust for power, he murders Duncan, assumes the throne, and subsequently sends mercenaries to kill Banquo’s sons. While awaiting battle, Macbeth addresses the death of his wife in Act V, scene 5. Throughout the

In what different ways dose each author of the two text shared in class achieve their purpose and influence their audience?

In ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Animal Farm’ there are many different characters, the main two that stick out though are the two evil tyrants, Macbeth and Napoleon. These destructive tyrants have their own level of ‘direst cruelty’ but there similar in many ways too, for example they’re both stupid and optimistic in their own selfish way. The reason for this is because Macbeth committed regicide, which is the murder of a king or queen and Napoleon committed cruel murder for their own selfish reasons. Personally, I believe that Macbeth and Napoleon’s actions link to the themes selfishness, corruption and violence. A quote to support this is: ‘I go, and it is done; the bell invites me’ this portrays Macbeth’s selfish side as his wife’s persuasion left him

Reader-response theory identifies the reader as an affective agent who imparts real exist-ence and life to the work, completing its meaning through interpretation. Reader- response criti-cism argues that literature should be viewed as art in which each reader creates his or her own-most likely unique, text-related performance. I am using Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish’s takes on Reader Response for my study.

State the key features each author uses to convey to the reader (in similar/different ways)