Examples Of Greed In Macbeth

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhaust the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction-Enrich Fromm. When given an opportunity to progress most individuals take advantage of it by spending their time thinking about how they can benefit from in a smaller amount of time. The thoughts of the individual develop into destructive ideas. Over time they begin to feed on the power of the week like cowards in order to ensure their plans are fulfilled. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, ambition and greed are observed through the actions of multiple characters, these themes are also displayed in Afghanistan's political history; it is truly unhealthy for individuals to take such impetuous actions because overtime

nations will collapse as a result.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's evil ambitions lead to their demise.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot their plan of killing King Duncan, and fulfilling the witches' prophecy. The couples ambitious actions can be seen when Lady Macbeth states "To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"(Shakespeare 13). Lady Macbeth successfully pressures her husband into killing King Duncan, but eventually Macbeth chooses to end the lives of all the individuals who will someday complete witches' prophecy of his death. King Macbeth's greed is observed when he states to Lady Macbeth " let your remembrance apply to Banquo; unsafe the while, that we must lave our honors in these flattering streams, and make our faces visards to our hearts, disguised what they are"(Shakespeare 39). Subsequently to all of the murders that Macbeth and his wife commit, Macbeth's righteous morals disappear and Lady Macbeth's mental state dwindles. Before Lady Macbeths suicide the Waiting-Gentlewoman stated to the doctor that "since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her night gown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep (Shakespeare

69).
Afghanistan has an endless history that has been build on tyrants and cowards as rulers, the effects of their poor actions can be seen in Afghanistan today.

King Amanullah tried to introduces social reforms between 1926 although he finally gave up after realizing that his people were not interested in his reforms, King Amanullah fled his country for Italy. During this period Afganistan was at a vulnerable state, King Amanullah's cousin Zhair Shah took his place and declared himself King of Afghanistan for the next forty years. King Zhair Shah's ambitions caused him to choose power over family, after King Amanullah failed to return his cousin decided to completely banish him from his native land. Due to the imprudent actions of King Zahir Shah , Afghanistan was eventually controlled by vile leaders such as Mohammed Daud "puppet of the Soviet Union" and The Taliban "oppressors of woman". The Soviet Union left an imprint on Afghanistan although the imprint that Taliban had left was far worse, the Taliban ensure that women should be the subordinates to men within the society, the Taliban ensured that they would extremities the religion of Islam. If anyone decided to go against the Taliban's rules they would die; the evidence of the Taliban's chaotic work was witnessed on September llth, 2001 at the world trade center in New York, and throughout Afghanistan. After twenty three years of corruption, and tyrant rulers Afghanistan is far below the standards of where they could

have been and the new Democratic government of Afghanistan is still working on rebuilding their country and fighting off the Taliban forces.
Truly it is unhealthy for individuals to take such impetuous actions because overtime nations will collapse as a result; these actions of greed and ambition are displayed in Afghanistan's political history and in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's intentions turned into plans, and ultimately resulted in multiple deaths. Considering the magnitude of the heinous actions that were committed by Macbeth and his wife, it is quit obvious to predict their ghastly outcomes. In today's society one begins to realize how Zahir Shah's actions resulted in the twenty three year reign of tyrant leaders who would eventually destroy Afghanistan. Evil Ambitions and greed will never benefit the life of an individual, but alternatively it will slowly eat away ones morals and mental health without granting complete satisfaction to the perpetrator or victim.