Shakespeare and human nature.

Macbeth

Part II 

Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, better known by most of the world due to his unique works. In them, he uses metric for an specific purpose because he wants to transmit something to the reader. It is amazing how he achieved to have a giant impact on the readers with his words, it obviously that he knew how to express his feelings in a piece of paper. Undoubtedly, his works were, are and will be some of the most precious and privileged creations in Literature.

One of his most famous creations is Macbeth, which I talked about in my last post. The thing here is that Macbeth contains a message related to human nature in the seek of power. According to Hobbes's philosophy, all men are equal by nature but each one of them looks for their own conservation that leads to competition and mistrust between each other, starting to live in a permanent war field. 

Each and every one of  humans on Earth, look for their own benefit. At the beginning of the "competition" in their seek for power, they may seem to be caring towards others but at the end the main priority is themselves. It doesn't matter if at the end they end up hurting someone as long as they have what they wanted, they will be satisfied.

The problem is that whenever humans achieve what they wanted in first place, they will be happy momentarily, but will want to have more and more. It's in the nature of humans be competitive and to have an unfulfilled appetite of having infinite power, just as Hobbes said: "man is a wolf to man".

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_hobbes.html#Y5kCTd464RODE21B.99

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_hobbes.html#Y5kCTd464RODE21B.99

"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility

of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense".

-Thomas Hobbes 

In comparison, Shakespeare exemplifies in Macbeth this philosophy. At the beginning of the novel, we can see that Macbeth is a man that would do anything in order to have a place in the throne, even if this means that he has to take away someone's life. He killed his own cousin and best friend, that caused him to be blinded by his hunger for power. 

It is inferred from this novel that there is always a karma that makes people have in return what they have done. This karma is not necessarily bad but it is just about the rules of life, you get what you give. Macbeth is the example of human nature in its very worst way, that is the reason why Macbeth ended up being murdered. 

"It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood"

—After Banquo's ghost has gone, Macbeth feels that his crime is pursuing him.

In conclusion, this play shows that everyone can choose the path they want to take in life, whether they make bad choices or not and how this decisions affect the outcome of someone's future.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." 

-The witches's philosophy of life.