The ideology of The Natural Man Description

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The ideology of the “natural man” has been around for centuries, but what is a “natural man”? The Judeo-Christian bible teaches that the natural enemy is an enemy to God. Why is this? The natural man is all the things that we hate about the human species, but we can’t do anything about it; it’s our nature. Greed, deceit, lust, to name a few, is the characteristics of a natural man. Shakespeare created several of these type of characters in his life of writing. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and The Tempest, Macbeth and Antonio are similar in their intent, however different in how they decide to carry out their plans.
Shakespeare created these two characters with a very significant similarity between them; both Macbeth and Antonio have a hunger for power. In the beginning of the play Macbeth, Macbeth hears a prophecy made by the three weird witches, in which they addressed him by three names: the thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor, and finally the king of Scotland. “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to you, thane of Cawdor!
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (Macbeth Act One, Scene Three, Lines 49-51) This knowledge eventually drives Macbeth into a type of madness and all that matters to him is his hunger for more power. “At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centered on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character. Johnson asserted that Macbeth, though esteemed for his military bravery, is wholly reviled. This opinion recurs in critical literature, and, according to Carolin...

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...like power, wealth, position, etc. These two men are fueled by greed and driven by the need to gain more to prove something; but this thing is not being proven to themselves, however, more to the people around them.

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