Similarities Between 419 And Macbeth

Throughout history, literature has illustrated the struggle of the individual against the overbearing human environment around them. Although set centuries apart and in two different parts of the world, both Will Ferguson’s 419 and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth depict a hierarchical society in which ambitious individuals advance only through detachment from close relationships, followed by abandonment of morality, resulting in an ultimate karmic downfall. This is shown in Macbeth through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Scottish aristocrats willing to do anything to increase their power, who initially accept their immoral actions but eventually succumb internally to their moral inhibitions. Conversely, in 419, the deuteragonist Winston Balogun, a