How Does Lady Macbeth Affective Forecasting
Dillon Ventura Ventura 1
Bruno
English 11R
29 March 2014
Happiness Have you ever thought if you are really happy? A lot of people think that power will bring them happiness but thats not always true. “Power is always desired by many”; however it never gives a person true happiness. Macbeth from William Shakespeare 's play Macbeth is a perfect example of someone who thought that power would bring happiness into his life only to find out that he was gravely mistaken. One quote from “A Formula for Happiness” is “Happiness has traditionally been considered an elusive and evanescent thing.” Macbeth takes place in Scotland …show more content…
According to Daniel Gilbert there are “fundamental assumptions namely, that we humans understand what we want and are adept at improving our well-being that we are good at maximizing our utility, in the jargon of traditional economics” (Gertner 1). Daniel Gilbert is describing what affective forecasting is. Affective forecasting means that we cannot predict what we want. According the Arthur C. Brooks “happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you” (1). This means that if we tryto make out lives perfect we will almost always mess up. People think that we always have to go out in the world to find what will make us happy but, sometimes we have to let life take its course in order to find …show more content…
Lady Macbeth feels so guilty about Duncan 's murder that she starts to talk in her sleep about the murder. She also sleepwalks and tries to wash off a non-existent blood spot on her hands. Her relationship with Macbeth begin to demise as Macbeth became much more secretive with her like not telling her about killing Banquo and his plan to kill the entire Macduff family. Lady Macbeth watched her husband progressively kill himself and became so enraptured in the thought that it could be her fault. Eventually she feels so guilty for the mess that she made, she kills herself. According ti Daniel Gilbert “We might think that a new BMW will make life perfect. But it will almost certainly be less exciting than we anticipated; and it will not excite us for as long as we predicted” (Gertner 1). Daniel Gilbert is describing impact bias. Impact bias is the gap between what we predict and what we ultimately experience. According to Arthur C. Brooks “happiness has traditionally been considered an elusive and evanescent thing” (1). This quote means that happiness is a hard
Bruno
English 11R
29 March 2014
Happiness Have you ever thought if you are really happy? A lot of people think that power will bring them happiness but thats not always true. “Power is always desired by many”; however it never gives a person true happiness. Macbeth from William Shakespeare 's play Macbeth is a perfect example of someone who thought that power would bring happiness into his life only to find out that he was gravely mistaken. One quote from “A Formula for Happiness” is “Happiness has traditionally been considered an elusive and evanescent thing.” Macbeth takes place in Scotland …show more content…
According to Daniel Gilbert there are “fundamental assumptions namely, that we humans understand what we want and are adept at improving our well-being that we are good at maximizing our utility, in the jargon of traditional economics” (Gertner 1). Daniel Gilbert is describing what affective forecasting is. Affective forecasting means that we cannot predict what we want. According the Arthur C. Brooks “happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you” (1). This means that if we tryto make out lives perfect we will almost always mess up. People think that we always have to go out in the world to find what will make us happy but, sometimes we have to let life take its course in order to find …show more content…
Lady Macbeth feels so guilty about Duncan 's murder that she starts to talk in her sleep about the murder. She also sleepwalks and tries to wash off a non-existent blood spot on her hands. Her relationship with Macbeth begin to demise as Macbeth became much more secretive with her like not telling her about killing Banquo and his plan to kill the entire Macduff family. Lady Macbeth watched her husband progressively kill himself and became so enraptured in the thought that it could be her fault. Eventually she feels so guilty for the mess that she made, she kills herself. According ti Daniel Gilbert “We might think that a new BMW will make life perfect. But it will almost certainly be less exciting than we anticipated; and it will not excite us for as long as we predicted” (Gertner 1). Daniel Gilbert is describing impact bias. Impact bias is the gap between what we predict and what we ultimately experience. According to Arthur C. Brooks “happiness has traditionally been considered an elusive and evanescent thing” (1). This quote means that happiness is a hard