Everyone has a mental illness. How strongly does it impact people’s ambitions? Does power or insanity win this time? Adolf Hitler’s life and the fictitious life of Shakespeare’s Macbeth argue that they are erratically unstable tyrants by being bloodthirsty for power and murderous. First of all, tyrants are afraid to lose their power, so they are maddened with insanity and worries of their beloved ones attempting to murder them. First, Macbeth briefly talks to the murderers about Banquo’s death before the feast. These murderers are assigned to murder Banquo and Fleance, his child. “Both of you know banquo was your enemy…...So he is mine..”(89) In this quote, Macbeth talks about having the same enemy as the murders. Previous times in the book, Macbeth had not wished to killed anyone, including his best friend. He was an innocent, …show more content…
He was afraid of losing his legacy, and his reign. These two objects are his powers. He wants it only for his family. Friend meant no harm, he didn’t even threaten the poor man; he just mentioned that he is going to be the father of the kings. Afraid of taking away his kingdom, he killed his friend because he believed his close-friend ally was the enemy. In the same light, Hitler was against jews, gypsies, and other “unnecessary” people according to his point of view. He killed at least seven million of these people, in which, some were his closely-relatives and friends.“Hitler put Germany’s unemployed to work on a massive rearmament programme, using propaganda and manufacturing enemies, such as the Jews, to prepare the country for war.”(3) “Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, with his long term girlfriend Eva Braun, who he is