The play ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’, written by William Shakespeare in 1606, explores many themes. Although it was written over 400 years ago, many of these ideas are still relevant to the world today. The majority of the themes in the play, like ambition, greed, and gender inequality are attributes relating to human nature. Human nature is still the same today as when the play was written, so Shakespeare’s plays have no use-by date. The most prominent theme in Macbeth is that of ambition and the
Shakespeare’s Relevancy Today Hannah Tebbe Bishop Fenwick High School Abstract Although Shakespeare has been dead for over four centuries, his legacy and his works continue to live on in today’s world. William Shakespeare has gained many followers because of his great storytelling skills and his exceptional way with words. Not only did he have a way with words, Shakespeare understood the human condition and, therefore, he was able to relate his plays and characters to the everyday person, making
Versus Reality In Macbeth and Hamlet In plays both Macbeth and Hamlet, the author; William Shakespeare, reveals the metaphor of the world as a stage. Shakespeare delivers this metaphor by displaying the imbalance between what appears to be and what truly exists. The idea that not everything can be defined by its appearance, is central in Shakespeare’s two famous tragedies Macbeth and Hamlet. Through the use of these ideas and themes, Shakespeare conveys the nature of theater, and how it relates to one’s
throughout the novel Macbeth by Shakespeare. In this play good versus evil is one of the most important themes. This play is based around the concept of evil and characters that are evil but also have a good side. Shakespeare is notorious for putting in little characteristics and attributes that will throw the readers and run them astray. This novel portrays the characters as both good and evil throughout, you can see this in the characters the witches, Macbeth and Lady MacBeth as they all play double
covers so many relevant themes and lessons that are applicable to life as we know it today. The novel by Nancy Farmer is exquisitely well fit for the grade eleven english class because it connects to grade eleven’s lives through its fantastic themes, identity and power, discrimination and deceit, and science and language. The theme of identity and power amalgamates perfectly with the everyday life of a high school student, especially a grade eleven student and that is why its relevant to the curriculum
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin