Putin's Brain Macbeth
By examining Macbeth and the article “The Danger That Lurks Inside Putin’s Brain”, it is clear that unrestrained ambition for power causes someone to become power hungry out of the fear of losing it, proving that power with a minimal amount of restrictions can make a person feel unstoppable which ultimately leads to the consequence of them to continually want dominance over everything by taking many precautions to do so.
A leader’s ambition for power when unrestrained will cause major consequences by causing that person to pursue power to a high extent as illustrated by Macbeth in the play Macbeth. Soon after Macbeth kills Duncan, he becomes the King of Scotland, which upgrades himself from the previous title of Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth is …show more content…
After being in charge of Russia for over a decade, Putin has begun to feel invincible because of the length of time and the amount of power he has obtained over time. This has started to cause Putin to feel that it is his “sacred duty to unify the people of Russia, to rally citizens around clear aims and tasks, and to remember every day and every minute that we have one motherland, one people, and one future” (Robertson 3). Putin has come to believe that he feels only he can be in charge of Russia and that he is the person that has the duty of propelling Russia forward in the future. When Putin says it is his “sacred duty to unify the people of Russia”, it shows how he legitimately has come to feel that he is the single person that has to control Russia in the time to come. This has caused him to become paranoid about staying in power, especially because of his fear of Western forces driving him out making himself treat outsiders with contempt. The “one motherland, one people, and one future” Putin has ideologized shows how he wants to be not only in charge of Russia but in fact be superior to the rest of the world. This ultimately causes him to fear being ousted out of power which causes him to want to gain more in order to fill the growing vacancy in him caused by the amount of power given to him and the amount of time he has had
A leader’s ambition for power when unrestrained will cause major consequences by causing that person to pursue power to a high extent as illustrated by Macbeth in the play Macbeth. Soon after Macbeth kills Duncan, he becomes the King of Scotland, which upgrades himself from the previous title of Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth is …show more content…
After being in charge of Russia for over a decade, Putin has begun to feel invincible because of the length of time and the amount of power he has obtained over time. This has started to cause Putin to feel that it is his “sacred duty to unify the people of Russia, to rally citizens around clear aims and tasks, and to remember every day and every minute that we have one motherland, one people, and one future” (Robertson 3). Putin has come to believe that he feels only he can be in charge of Russia and that he is the person that has the duty of propelling Russia forward in the future. When Putin says it is his “sacred duty to unify the people of Russia”, it shows how he legitimately has come to feel that he is the single person that has to control Russia in the time to come. This has caused him to become paranoid about staying in power, especially because of his fear of Western forces driving him out making himself treat outsiders with contempt. The “one motherland, one people, and one future” Putin has ideologized shows how he wants to be not only in charge of Russia but in fact be superior to the rest of the world. This ultimately causes him to fear being ousted out of power which causes him to want to gain more in order to fill the growing vacancy in him caused by the amount of power given to him and the amount of time he has had