Comparison Of Ambition In Macbeth

As the saying goes ‘There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate; there is no net like delusion, no river like craving.”When comparing The Lion King， the most notable Disney cartoon in the 19th century and Macbeth which is the greatest tragedy written by William Shakespeare together, it is accessible to find out that the word ‘ambition’ is a clue through out both Macbeth and The lion king . In these two stories it seems both Macbeth and Sacar’s desire of becoming the king all get out of hand and lead to an unfavorably consequence.Both of them reveal the same truth that ambitions will definitely cause suffering because it can never be completely gratified ，beyond that the feeling of inferiority and weakness must make one turn into short

Another comparison to the seemingly similar manor of Macbeth and the Lion King is that both of The lion King and Macbeth presents us with the ugliness of human nature and greed, in order to achieve the ends justify means not hesitate to harm their fellow citizens. The processes when they were achieving their ambition are meanness and ruthless ，however all of these bring themselves the tragic ending .‘ No, fool - we 're going to kill him. Simba too.’(Scar in The liong king)，‘Be prepared for the murkiest scam’(Scar in The liong king) ‘Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared .’ (Scar in The liong king) after telling Simba to exile himself from the Pride Lands, Scar orders the hyenas to kill him soon after rather than do it himself, and doesn 't bother to make sure that they actually do the job.Accoring to this,the screenwriter confirmed us that cruelty and the fighting instinct have not yet been bred out of the human beings.Moreover,Scar is quite happy to let the Pridelands go to hell in a handbasket if that means he can be King. He 's also pretty upfront that he wants the job for the power and refuses to even acknowledge that he 's supposed to have duties and responsibilities to go with them. However,this kind of contemptible behaves leads himself an unfavorably consequence . He succeeds in becoming King, but the once-bountiful Pridelands quickly goes downhill under his disastrous and self-serving leadership. Even the hyenas think that Mufasa 's reign was better for them.

Mac5.8.10） In comparison，Macbeth and The Lion king ，even there exists some differences，there still some obvious similarities in the shaping of the characters’ personality ， the same literary devices, the processes and consequences of how they were achieving their ambition .However，there is no doubt that both of them spawn moments of deep thought and expose the darker side of humanity，lead readers to considering whether the punishment is the justice for