Theme Of Greed In Macbeth

Greed is far more detrimental to society than procrastination, because greed can change a person, it can bring out the worst of themselves and it will affect the people around them. In Macbeth, Macbeth showed greed and as a result, it made him go crazy and it affected the people around him including his wife. Greed can make someone do anything to reach the point where they are satisfied. Lance Armstrong showed greed by using dope to help him win a bike race. Greed is one of the human traits that can cause many people to act in a horrible way.

Greed was shown in Macbeth by having Macbeth become greedy on trying to obtain the throne of Duncan. He killed Duncan and became the king. In act 3, scene 1 of Macbeth, Macbeth decided to kill his best

friend, Banquo, so that he can be the king without worrying about Banquo. This decision shows that Macbeth wants to be king without anyone dethroning him. He doesn’t know that Banquo knows how he became the king, but suspected Banquo will cause him to lose the crown. He decided to kill Banquo just to be safe. In act 2, scene 2 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth said that she would be able to kill Duncan if he didn’t looked like her father when sleeping. Women at that time were not allowed to be as cruel as Lady Macbeth and the greed for power made her to act very differently. The way she is thinking shows that Lady Macbeth isn’t who she actually was before greed had taken over her body. Greed can change a person to become a whole new person as it has been shown by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Procrastination is less detrimental to society than greed, because procrastination is only making someone do a deed at a later time. Hamlet had a chance to kill Claudius and before killing him, he sees Claudius is “praying” and decided to postpone his mission to kill Claudius. He realize that killing him while he is praying,“Is hire and salary, not revenge.” By doing this, he is putting off the deed that the ghost wanted him to do. Hamlet knows that putting the deed off, it will eventually come back and he will have to do it soon. As he explains how his fate keep on directing him back on the course to kill Claudius, “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.” He realize that there are no ways from diverting the plan that was given to him earlier in the play. Hamlet knows that he will have to kill Claudius and this will also lead to his death in the end. Procrastination will cause a person to run away from the problem and to put it off. It will create even more problems for the person to finish it and they will eventually have to get the problem done one way or another.
Greed can change a person for the worst because they are too focus on getting what they want that they can’t see what it is doing to them.

There’s an article that talks about Lance Armstrong using dope to help him win a bike race. Lance Armstrong “Had one goal and one ambition and that was to win the greatest bike race in the world and not just to win it once, but to keep winning it.” He focused on staying at the top that he even used a drug to help him keep on winning the races. His goal is to keep on winning races as much as he can and he’ll do anything to be at the top. Greed can be seen in Lance on how the greed of winning and being successful can make a person blind. The impact that greed have on our society is that it causes people to do things that they would never be expected on doing.

Greed is a detrimental trait to society as it will causes people to become blind on what they are doing to achieve their goal. Greed can bring out the worst of everyone and it will affect the people around them. It will not help them to become successful or powerful, but it will help them to become blind on what it is changing them to. Greed causes people to change dramatically and not change for the good but for the bad. It makes them blind and as a result, they will do things that will harm people around them and

themselves.