What do you truly know about Happiness and Unhappiness? In the story of Macbeth he proves that there is unhappiness and I’ll explain that in a bit. This one guy name Chris shows us that there is happiness and you are going to be surprised when I get into more detail with him. This is a video about “What is Happiness” and it's mainly about people getting interviewed about that question. Unhappy compared to happy are not the same because unhappy means you are sad or depressed and happy means you feel good or have a smile.
Macbeth has searched his whole life to find happiness. Here’s one huge thing that made him happy but at the same time it made unhappy because of the things he had to do. Macbeth became King but it wasn’t easy to get, he had
to kill his cousin King Duncan in order to get his throne. Also Macbeth killed his best friend Banquo just in case he was going to kill him and take the throne. Later on he regrets it because he starts to see a ghost of King Duncan and he is scared and we know that is he sad in the inside. In the story of Pursuit of Unhappiness it's going to talk about unhappiness just how the title says it. In order to be happy you have to think about god to be happy which I think it is false because you can be happy if something makes you laugh etc. They even had a holiday called “Blue” and that means it was a holiday of depression. Not all unhappy people should be sad because there is a guy that has bad circumstances and yet he is a happy man. His name is Chris and he is a very happy man even though he has bad circumstances. He has no arms but still has a lot of fun. He was riding a skateboard down a hill and you can see he was having a lot of fun just by looking at his face. Even he can make other people happy and laugh by telling jokes. Chris has no legs but is a very active man and their are some people today that are very lazy and we have Chris over here getting things done that he can do like help around the farm, give animals milk. You might not believe this but this is true he can run pretty fast and he can also drive a truck. It's amazing how a person like him can do all these things. Chris is a happy man just like the people in the video of “What is Happiness.” Lastly, What is Happiness? Did you know that one positive person can share happiness than 1,000 people. We were thought “Hard Work - Success - Happiness” sorry to break it up to you but that is wrong. People can be happy if they are with friends and family. Just by spreading happiness would even make you even happier. For example you can join the movement or share the movement. One person said that money doesn’t bring you happiness but everyone is different and people think differently than others. Although there’s someone that’s always unhappy or happy. In Conclusion, what do you think would win Unhappy vs Happy? Macbeth and Pursuit of Happiness both had bad outcomes. Chris had happy outcomes because he is filled with happiness. In What is Happiness they are trying to find the true meaning of Happiness. So now what is truly Happiness or Unhappiness to you? Just don’t say what you want to say to make you feel good like think deep down and see if you meaning changed from before.
The most important emotions that we see in Macbeth are ambition, remorse, and fear. They are significant because they provoke Macbeth to do evil and cruel things. Ambition takes control of him earlier in the play when the witches tell him he is going to be king. After he already has done the deed, killed Duncan, he is remorseful for his actions. Out of fear for himself, Macbeth murdered Macduff’s family and killed Banquo.
A quote which really defines Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s ambition regarding power is “Power does not corrupt men; fools; however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power” George Bernard Shaw. Lady Macbeth is more ambitious in terms of gaining power then Macbeth is and that Lady Macbeth will do almost anything to gain power, even evil things that she normally wouldn’t do. This is shown when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth learn about the witches’ predictions, then roles in the plans to murder king Duncan in order to gain power and then finally after the murder, Macbeth doesn’t want to finish the plan making Lady Macbeth angry and causing a chance they might get caught and gain no power at all.
“O worthiest cousin, the sin of my gratitude even now was heavy on me!”(I. i. 347) the king cannot repay him for what he has done for their kingdom. Macbeth is a highly respected warrior because he is loyal, trusted, and honest man. Macbeth is a vulnerable man; he is weak. Letting other people make decisions for him, he becomes more incapable of resisting how people will view him as a “loyal” soldier since he cannot follow through. In the film Macbeth the setting is right in the middle of war. Macbeth has held the enemy facing him, but he hesitates and looks at his soldiers for the okay to kill the enemy. With that being said, he is seriously self conscious and lets others makes the decisions for him. Before he is going to kill King Duncan, he speaks to himself in the If soliloquy. “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly.”(I. vii. 343) in this quote it shows that he is truly evil since he wants it done quick and easy.
When looking back on the recent decades or even last week, it is not difficult to find a Macbeth-like figure in mainstream American culture. In this it is meant that these individuals experience a downfall in an attempt to gain power. One such figure was former President Richard Nixon.
There was a common saying, “Behind every great man there's a great woman”. The men, Macbeth and Winston Smith in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and George Orwell’s 1984 may not be considered as the “great man” however, both Lady Macbeth and Julia are good examples that can be presented as the “great woman” behind the men. Both Lady Macbeth and Julia do an excellent job of pretending to be someone who they are not, they are not only affecting the men in their lives to rethink their previous position but also have a bad ending accompanied with physical and psychological issues.
When we, human beings, are about to commit wicked acts, we feel a variety of emotions. One of those emotions is guilt. You may also feel guilt due to moments you chose not to act. The presence of guilt is a driving factor that prevents us from acting irrationally. Citizens of the 16th century possessed these emotions as well, no matter their social standing. The citizens included Shakespeare as well, a poet and playwright of the 16th century, and writer of the play Macbeth. Shakespeare transfers the idea of negative emotions to Macbeth by using blood to symbolize guilt, among other emotions in the protagonists they do not show otherwise. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare uses blood to show the inner-conflict of the
In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the author tries to show the true nature of man by using the play’s main character, Macbeth, as an example. He is overly ambitious, courageous, and self-doubting. Throughout the play, Shakespeare displays these characteristics to the audience through Macbeth to show the true nature of man. At the end of the play, these characteristics ultimately lead to Macbeth’s downfall.
Lady Macbeth tries to encourage her husband to kill King Duncan by questioning his manhood. However, after committing the murder, Macbeth suffers from stress, worry and lack of sleep. He is stressed about the fact that his wife is going insane. He is worried at some point that someone might get suspicious about how Macbeth got to seize the throne.
Macbeth: Shakespeare's Comparisons and Contrasts. Throughout Macbeth Shakespeare uses comparison and contrast to bring out characteristics of his main character, Macbeth. Shakespeare uses comparisons with Duncan, Lady Macbeth, and Banquo to bring out aspects of Macbeth's character. After hearing of Macbeth's courageousness on the battlefield, Duncan, a good and honest king, bestows the title of Cawdor on Macbeth.
Noah Webster, author of Webster’s Dictionary, defines mood as the “temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling“ and “a morbid or fantastic state of mind.” E. L. Thorndike and Clarence L. Barnhart, authors of Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary, define mood as “the overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional aura of a work.” Shakespeare’s Macbeth, especially the pivotal and ominous second act, exemplifies both denotations of mood. The act has an “overall atmosphere,” even though the mood shifts, while this mood places a sense of cliff-hanging anxiety at the beginning, an ambiance of hysterics towards the middle, a feeling of tragic realization directly following, and an unsure aura of occult extractions. Shakespeare cleverly uses six key elements to further shape and add to the mood: the characters, the imagery, the setting, the sounds, the characters’ actions, and the characters’ dialogue.
Within Macbeth the tragedy and demise of Macbeth is an important factor in determining his character as a tragic hero. However in order to elucidate on this point we need to define what is a tragedy. Aristotle within ‘Poetics’ highlighted what characteristics he believed to define tragedy these being;
One of the most important themes in Macbeth involves the witches' statement in Act 1, Scene1 that "fair is foul and foul is fair." (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 10) This phrase aptly describes the macabre status quo within the character Macbeth and without. When Macbeth and Banquo first see the weird sisters, Banquo is horrified by their hideous appearances. Conversely, Macbeth immediately began to converse with these universally known evil creatures. After hearing their prophecies, one can say that Macbeth considered the witches to be "fair" when in reality their intentions were quite "foul." Macbeth's possession of the titles of Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland came by foul means. Macbeth became the Thane of Glamis by his father Sinel's death; he became Thane of Cawdor when the former namesake was executed for treason; and he was ordained King of Scotland after murdering the venerable Duncan. Thus, Macbeth has a rather ghastly way of advancing in life.
Macbeth rejects conformation to traditional gender roles in its portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s relationship with her husband, her morals and their effect on her actions, and her hunger for power. Her regard for Macbeth is one of low respect and beratement, an uncommon and most likely socially unacceptable attitude for a wife to have towards her spouse at the time. She often ignores morality and acts for the benefit of her husband, and subsequently herself. She is also very power-hungry and lets nothing stand in the way of her success. Lady Macbeth was a character which challenged expectations of women and feminism when it was written in the seventeenth century.
Tragic heroes, who destined for a serious downfall, are the protagonist of a dramatic tragedy. A tragic hero is usually a great hero, who gets the most respect from other people; on the other hand, a tragic hero can also lose everything he gained because of his mistakes. His downfall is the result of a wrong judgment, a flaw which might combined with fated and external forces. The downfall can cause the tragic hero to suffer for the rest of his life. In many literary works, the downfall of the tragic heroes usually happen in their highest point. In the same way, Macbeth is a tragic hero in the play called “The Tragedy of Macbeth” which is written by a legendary writer, William Shakespeares. Macbeth is a great general who gained many respect from the people and even the king. In the highest point of his life, because of seeking for greater power, it created Macbeth’s downfall. Macbeth, a tragic hero, causes suffering for himself and others by committing murders and creating distress, which are the negative effects of seeking for a greater power.
With the unraveling of Lady Macbeth’s mental state, Shakespeare further supports his pesstimistic view of life. According to R.A. Foakes, Lady Macbeth seems to overflow Macbeth’s life with hope by persuading him with her “crude sense of ambition” (Foakes 15). After Macbeth loses Lady Macbeth in his life, he then recognizes the crude side of her influence. Once Macbeth accepts the crude side of her persuasion, he learns that her advice appears positive, but it is in fact weakens life. Also, Lady Macbeth’s final actions of guilt before her death express how humans strive to gain meaning in their lives. Isador Coriat hypothesizes, “The act of washing the hands is a compromise for self-reproach and repressed experiences” (Coriat 8). Despite her guilt of King Duncan’s murder, she tries to rejuvenate her artificial feeling of worth in the world. Although, her attempts do not accomplish her goal because she still did not make her life admirable or productive. When Lady Macbeth finally dies, Macbeth ponders about life’s boredom that the lack of human progression in society causes: