Examples Of Greed In Macbeth

The intrinsic nature of greed is natural, it is a biological characteristic that is evident in both humans and animals, it is a part of our survival mechanism. To strive for a good and honorable life, naturally, one must want more. But man's unquenchable thirst for more has proven to result in some horrific and world changing events. The dissonance is a very thin and very blurred line between greed for survival and greed for ultimate self-satisfaction. This trait can be seen clearly in the three characters mentioned below. One noticeably common factor that must be considered with each character is that they were not greedy by nature but instead they were pushed to the extreme form of this trait by either, their environment, or by another person.

In the beginning of his journey Macbeth was a courageous and noble man whose want for more was of the norm, he simply wanted to reach a higher position in his life. At this time his ambition had not yet

Jack the most naturally evil character in the story is turned into a savage, is consumed by greed and was obsessed with power. His savagery began with a pig and from there it escalated to his peers, “kill the pig, cut her throat, spill the blood."' In Jack's case, he was not influenced by any other being but instead it was the situation that catapulted him into extreme greed, he had already had a dark side to him and it was set lose after he had a taste of power over the pig. He was thirsty for power after that. Jack proved his mercilessness throughout the story, his goal was to have power over all the other children and he stopped at nothing to achieve this goal. He turned into a completely different person, the person that exists in all of us if only given the chance to come out. Jack's greed was the reason behind all the chaos and destruction in their mini