Similarities Between Lance Armstrong And Macbeth

Macbeth and Lance Armstrong had many of the same qualities, both becoming tragic heroes. For Armstrong, he saw the opportunity to win, and was willing to do anything to achieve that. Lance had many sponsorships and won the hearts of many around the world. He abused

Rupert Goold`s brilliance was on full display the way he was able to make this film Macbeth, a huge success the way he interchanged the play's initial renaissance theme taking place in the 1600s. He recreated the play into a more modern day version, appealing to the viewer's understanding of what's taking place. While the characters conversed with each other in the same old school english wordplay. What I really found fascinating was how Lady Macbeth, played by Kate Fleetwood and her husband Macbeth, played by Patrick Stewart, dramatized their plots to steal the throne. The lust for power portrayed by both creates suspense in the sense that most of their peers were oblivious to their true intentions, as they go on about to eliminate anyones

Instead of Macbeth being Thane of Glamis, he is a high-class chef of a well-renowned restaurant in the middle of London. The environment in Shakespeare Retold has changed from a Shakespearean era to the 21st century. Both Macbeth and Joe have high positions that will eventually lead to their downfall. Both the play and the film emphasize on the same values and they demonstrate how ambition and greed drive a human to their insanity and madness. For example, in Shakespeare Retold, Joe was introduced as a kind, jovial person who as a chef himself taught his fellow cooks how to properly make food. His desire to secure his throne, in this case, the main chef, made him disoriented and was breaking plates, and burning food, something he wouldn't do before. The loving aura changed and it was just filled with chaos, in which the environment was not a place where his workers wanted to be. The change of scenery from the kitchen to an ominous night was effective in such that viewers could see that it meant something bad was about to happened. Lastly, at the end of the film, the kitchen in a highly renowned restaurant was not as luminous as before. The lights were turned off by Joe, and this is where we could see that he was beginning to shut himself down.

     Macbeth started off a great and noble man of Scotland and was honoured by the king and his people. He was thought of as a great man and brave among the

It takes both the audience’s pity and fear to make a tragic and heroic character become a tragic hero. Macbeth earns both. The audience can fear Macbeth because they know that he is capable of murder. He lacks the ability to stand up to Lady Macbeth when he knows something is not morally right and that is frightening, but even after all the pain and suffering of other characters the audience

Macbeth and Braveheart have very similar plotlines, while their characters motives aren’t quiet the same. The two characters have different personalities and intention, but they do share one similarity. Macbeth and William Wallace are portrayals of a heroic warrior because they are both ambitious, posses’ leadership qualities and are brave.

We often believe that the protagonist of a story is a hero and possesses heroic qualities such as moral goodness, courage and selflessness. However, this is not true for every story. A story can have a protagonist who is an anti-hero: someone who lacks the traditional qualities of a hero. Anti-heroes are defined in three ways: The Satanic anti-hero, a character who seeks an evil goal through evil means, the Promethean anti-hero, someone who seeks a worthy goal but by unethical means, and the Byronic anti-hero, a character who has undefined goals and are to be achieved through questionable means, in which this character is often unpredictable mysterious, moody, and self-destructive. Both Macbeth from William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth and Pink from the film, Pink Floyd – The Wall, are both anti-heroes. More specifically, Macbeth is classified as a satanic anti-hero who seeks the goal to become king and Pink is a Byronic anti-hero, who has no clear goal other than to escape the ‘wall’ he is trapped in. Some similarities these two characters share are that they are both privileged (with Macbeth being a well-praised warrior and Pink being a famous musician), are supported by corrupting influences and rationalize their worse deeds as needing to preserve their own safety. Although Macbeth and Pink share similar characteristics, I would assert, because of Pink’s childhood traumas, that Pink deserves more sympathy than Macbeth.

Even though both stories show the same theme, in the play “Macbeth,” the theme isn’t as strong as it could be. In the beginning the main character Macbeth is loyal but as the story continues, Macbeth transforms into this character who disobeys his friends and family. He’s no longer looked at as a leader. At times he realizes he made the wrong choices, but at other times he thought him being king was his destiny. Macbeth says “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born” (Shakespeare 212). When he says this, he thinks he has nothing to worry about because being king is his destiny and he doesn’t have to worry in the

The tragedy of Macbeth could simply be the tale of a hero who is destroyed by a certain weakness of character, by ambition

Macbeth and Tonya Harding are 2 characters that are both alike yet different. They both are extremely jealous of people who succeed more than they. Macbeth is a liar no never committed to his crimes unlike, Tonya Harding who confessed hers.

This paper explores the novel Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh, who published the novel at the end of 2012. This novel is about Walsh’s journey as he follows Lance Armstrong and his life as a cyclist for 13 years as Lance deals with critics and skepticisms about his correlation with doping. Lance Armstrong was a glorified athlete who won many Tour de France titles after conquering testicular cancer. He was widely appreciated for cycling, but many people were questioning how he was able to make such a comeback after his cancer diagnosis. This book explores what happens from David Walsh’s point of view and the struggles he had to face as a Tour de France sports journalist: whether he should just celebrate Armstrong’s victories or question his usage of drugs. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief summary of the novel, and to reflect on the novel while still linking it to the issues and concepts of drugs and cheating in sports.

Although William Shakespeare created the play, Macbeth, to be a tragedy, the tragic hero can hardly be considered to be one. For the entirety of one of Shakespeare’s most magnificent works, Macbeth is controlled and manipulated into committing atrocious acts that the witches and his wife desire. He is powerless to their tricks and through their sorcery/cunning words and his own morals (or lack thereof) “sustain[s] the central paradox–the heroic murderer” (Cusick). Despite the fact that he laments the loss of his king, Duncan, he still continues down his path of evil that only has one ending: his death. Although Macbeth gains a few insights on his inner self, his lack of ability to resist manipulation, willingness to kill, combined with his

Tragic heroes have lives that are doomed from the start because of interference from a different power. Macbeth meets the three witches and they effectively alter his life by placing thoughts and ideas into his mind. After the war Macbeth and Banquo meet the three sisters, they make a prophecy that Macbeth will become thane of Cawdor and later on become king. The second of three sisters says “All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee thane of Cawdor!” the third witch continues the prophecy and states “All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!” (I, iii, 49-50).The ideas have been placed into Macbeth’s mind and have started to get him thinking. Tragic heroes are sometimes of noble birth and the witches have set their target on a man who’s soon to be promoted. Even after the entire chaos and destruction, Macbeth was still doomed to not survive, although some tragic heroes make it through with great suffering, Macbeth does not. In the article, Principal Topics, the author states “the weird sisters’ attempts at misinformation succeed not only because

Macbeth’s good nature is increasingly defeated by one of his major flaws-ambition. His ambition and desire to become king leads

Armstrong was an American hero, he battled cancer, beat it and came back to prove himself as one of the greatest athletes of all time. Lance had won 7 Tour de France within his career and founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation. He was what we pictured when we pictured a fighter, an American hero. Armstrong has shown us his blood, sweat and tears, had built not only the credibility but the goodwill. In the blink of an eye, all of it was gone. It was revealed that Armstrong had been taking performance enhancements to win his races. In one day he had lost 8 sponsorships, he had built his relationships on being a winner, a fighter, accomplishing things no ordinary person could. Admitting to lying to the world meant his credibility vanished. How can you stand behind a man who can’t tell the