What is the greatest accomplishment you could ever achieve in life? What lengths would you go to in order to achieve this accomplishment? Consider the moral and legal boundaries you would or would not cross.
The greatest accomplishment I could ever achieve in life is happiness. While I think I might know what I want in life when I grow up now, it changes all the time. When I was younger i wanted to be a firemen, fashion designer, mom, princess, and many more jobs. However, even now I still don't truly know what I want to do when I grow up. At this point in my life, I think I want to be a fashion designer and artist, but I also want to be a doctor and have a family. Truth is, I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know one thing. I want whatever it is I do, to make me happy. Therefore, it does not matter what accomplishments I gather or achieve, for it all comes down to the fact if I am happy or not. I would go to any lengths to be happy because if I am not happy, then what's the point of anything?
In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth killed King Duncan in order for Macbeth to be appointed the next king. They thought that being king and queen is the greatest accomplishment they could ever achieve in life, so they went as far as to kill someone in order to get it. However, they might find that being king and queen is not actually all it was caked up to be. And then what? Then they have killed someone for a cause they no longer feel as strong or needy for before.
While I would do anything to be happy, I would never kill someone. I would never kill someone in order to achieve something I need, like how the Macbeth's killed Duncan so they could be king and queen. Nothing I could ever need or want would require me (or me being part of a plan like Lady Macbeth) to take someone else's life.
Sasha-
ReplyDeleteI agree with your ideas and think you made some really good points. Towards the beginning of the story, the murders were mainly motivated by Lady Macbeth, however towards the end they are portrayed as a product of Macbeth's paranoia. After going through and reading the scene again, I wondered if this perhaps was a social commentary on Shakeperes' part. During the renaissance woman where seen as "temptresses" (hence Adam and Eve). I thought that Macbeth's murders may be fueled by Macbeth's fear of his wife. After his nervous breakdown in front of all of his friends at the banquet Lady Macbeth's image was tarnished. Maybe Macbeth fears her wrath and knowing her thirst for power, I'm sure a scar on her image would disappoint her. (Sorry for the brevity, I had an eloquent post written buy it was deleted by Blogger).