Macbeth And Oedipus Rex: Literary Analysis

When reading stories they usually have a theme or moral that can be related back to ourselves or reflected onto the society we live in. Authors like William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, and Sophocles incorporate their own writing to go along with the way their society was. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to flatter King James I. Mary Shelley wrote her book Frankenstein to show what the limits of science should be. Sophocles wrote his book Oedipus Rex to prove to people that they do indeed have a choice from fate vs. free will. They all wrote about something that fancied them. Some of these themes that are still applied to modern day society are corruption, gender roles, and power.

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare we are introduced to the corruption of the protagonist named Macbeth. Macbeth gets corrupted by the pleonexia for power. For example at the beginning of the play, Macbeth seems like the type of person who would never murder a person for his own gain. Lady Macbeth plays a key role in Macbeth’s corruption because she is the one who manipulates Macbeth into committing these atrocities. Macbeth has doubts about killing King Duncan because of how loyal he

Men are usually associated with dominance, being a higher class, and aggressiveness. Women are associated with being fragile, nurturing, and subordination. The role you play in this world is made up before you’re even born. When you are born and you are a boy they dress you in blue. If you are a female you are dressed up in pink. Gender socialization occurs throughout agents named education family, and what the media thinks is right. All of these example show how gender roles are creating expectations for the gender of the child. Other agents that determine how you act are things such as religion. How the stereotypes of a religion can leave you trapped being someone or something you do not want to be. Things that should be gotten rid