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Macbeth And Lord Of The Flies Analysis

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It is clearly suggested that there is always a desire to be a leader, be a king, minister or any ruler and the label is not important. Controlling or ruling other people seems fascinating. People in a society are divided into groups according to the power they have in different ways. William Golding’s Lord of the flies and william shakespeare’s macbeth are both moral stories. In this essay I am trying to prove that Characters in each are innocent at first but because they had desires, wanted more power, and didn't want to degrade themselves they start doing wrong behaviours. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is an innocent character who is loyal to the king and one of the leader of the king's army. But he always wanted to be king of scotland. Jack was …show more content…

Macbeth and Jack were leader of some kind. When Macbeth is faced with three witches that prophesy his reign. His innocence is damaged, he kills the king. When Jack is on the island and it comes to choosing leader he puts himself forward. But he doesn't get chosen. Just as Macbeth kills King Duncan following his ambition, so Jack says that they do not need Ralph anymore and forms his own army, and both of them get rid of the biggest obstacle between them and their wishes. Jack takes the place of Ralph by turning everyone against him and becomes a leader; on the other hand, Macbeth becomes the king after the murder of King Duncan Also, the fear of losing power and degrading themselves makes the characters commit more crimes because of losing control. Macbeth decides to murder Macduff relying on what he has heard of the witches: “Beware Macduff. Beware the thane of Fife.” (57) Realizing that Macduff flees to England, he still wants to be sure that he will not take the throne in future. Fourthly, they both became more cruel as they gained more power. After Jack formed his own group and set up a camp on Castle Rock, he became more cruel than

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As time went on Jack became obsessed with this idea of power and control over all of the boys on the island, not just the hunters. He let this obsession change him and he started to show violent behavior. He tried to challenge Ralph for the chief position and ended up going off on his own with some of the hunters. These hunters started to turn into savages and let the idea of power corrupt them. They ended up killing multiple people during their time on the island.

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Macbeth was tyrannous to his people and even his friends, forcing innocent lives to be taken from those who did no wrong doing. Jack’s influence killed Piggy and Simon in Lord of the Flies, and drove himself to create a tribe dedicated to killing. However, both tyrants had their opposing leaders, Macduff and Ralph. Macduff was no leader, but became one just so he may restore a proper monarchy to Ireland and to get vengeance for his family. Ralph was just a guy with a conch, but that conch did like the mask for Jack.

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As humans, the power to control is one of the most dominant feelings that ignores the harm it can cause others. The greed for more power brings out the selfish and merciless side of someone, leading them to their eventual downfall and the destruction of everyone around them. In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the story begins with Macbeth, who is King of Glamis, and Banquo, King of Lochaber, meeting with the Three Weird Sisters to hear a prophecy they foretell. Macbeth learns he will be crowned King of Scotland and the idea of him becoming king slowly consumes him, becoming his focus throughout the play. For them to control the throne, Macbeth and his wife form plans to kill everyone and anyone in their way, starting with King Duncan

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Evil vs Evil:Jack vs Macbeth People who thirst for power hungry will commit evil acts to remain in power. In the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, and the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, there are two wicked characters who killed and manipulated for power. Take Jack, a once preppy choir boy turned tyrant and Macbeth a once brave and loyal warrior turned tyrant. Jack and Macbeth are two characters who are ambitious, whose personalities darkly change throughout their stories and who are evil. Jack is bent on power from the beginning whereas, Macbeth is manipulated by three witches and his wife to take power.

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There are many factors that determine how people behave in their daily lives. We are run by a number of rules and regulations that influence the way we behave, talk and live. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows that without the influence of a civilized society and law and order, people’s characteristics can change drastically. Similarly in Macbeth, Shakespeare represents the loss of morality of a leader as his hunger for power clouds his judgement. Both pieces of literature present how both writers view the breakdown of morality through the breakdown of civil behaviour.

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"Macbeth" is a play written by William Shaksphere. In the play Macbeth is a man who is given phrophecies by witches, and one of them was that he would become king. He decided to act on this phrophecy and make it happen on his own. He did this by killing king Duncan, a well-loved king of Ireland. Macbeth tried to forge his own future by commiting the crime of murder on his king.

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Macbeth was an honorable and loyal soldier to King Duncan. As he stumbled upon the three witches and hearing their predictions. He began to question his future when King Duncan had given a higher rank to his son Malcolm. As if Malcolm was to become king Macbeth’s second prophecy of him becoming king wouldn’t come true or at least it would take a longer time for him to be king. His ambitions toward the crown grew and it slowly but surely began to corrupt his mind.

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SOCIETAL DEGRADATION How is it that man descends into savagery, furthering himself away from civilisation? Lord of the Flies and Justin Kurzel’s 2015 Macbeth – an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play – both prominently elucidate that man’s ambition for power corrupts him to an irredeemable self. William Golding, author of award-winning Lord of the Flies, explores this principal theme by placing several young boys on an uninhabited island and investigating their subsequent descent while Macbeth’s degeneration is similarly portrayed in his aspiration for the throne. Political ambition is thus illustrated as a treacherous obsession, collapsing the subject’s innocence and morals, converting them into savages. With expert exploitation of aesthetic features, characters, plot and symbols signifying the common theme, the audience is manipulated to accept the dominant message of both texts.

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