John Armour Hindman 4th 5/13/10 Power Ambition and Honor The fact is power corrupts‚ unless one knows how to use it. Everyone has ambition; it is the desire for achievement and the willingness to strive for its attainment. (1) Ambition can give us great things; strength‚ admiration and respect‚ but ambition as well as power has the ability to corrupt. Finally‚ honor‚ a title given to people who have completed a noble act. But some honorable‚ powerful and ambitious people go too far and forget
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but are often ambitiously pursued with only the end result in mind. In William Shakespeare’s plays‚ Othello and Macbeth‚ an underlying connection of the result of blind ambition is presented. Through the use of ambition for power‚ love‚ and mental satisfaction‚ Shakespeare demonstrates that regardless of the source of ambition‚ if it is pursued without regard to morality‚ it results in destruction. Firstly‚ the desire for prestige and power by characters in both plays results in destruction. For
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yet he is not satisfied. His thirst for knowledge is unquenchable. He comments‚ “How dull it is to pause‚ to make an end‚ “To rust unfurnished‚ not to shine in use !” His Victorian spirit is fully reflected when he says that even in old age his ambition is “To strive‚ to seek‚ to find‚ and not to yield.” The Victorian age is also marked with a note of pessimism and frustration. People of the age felt exhausted with their never ending race against time and longed for a life of settled order‚ stability
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and serve. The Tragedy of Macbeth by Shakespeare is a tragedy about how a knight is stuck in between loyalty and ambition. Three witches tell Macbeth he would become Thane of Cawdor and later king. Once Thane of Cawdor‚ Macbeth pressured by his wife‚ begins to see his future as king‚ but realizes he has obstacles in the way. Pressured by Lady Macbeth‚ the three witches‚ and his ambition for the throne‚ Macbeth commits murder under trust and treason. To begin with‚ murder under trust is the killing
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Human ambition is often a double-edged sword‚ on which many people fall. Without drive‚ humanity would be lost in the dark ages‚ doomed to stagnate. However when ambition is left unchecked‚ humans pay a grave price. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the tragic characters often have ambition to thank for their fatal or perilous ends. Ambition cannot exist in a pure form‚ free from consequence because there will always be a dark path to take that might seem to be justified by the ends. The natural
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reconstructs Macbeth as a scheming character through strong diction and irony to introduce the theme of how one’s blind ambition can lead to their demise. Through his powerful word choice‚ Shakespeare delivers the main idea of the soliloquy along with a better insight of Macbeth’s characterization. While lamenting about having no children to inherit the throne‚ he says that “Upon my head they plac’d a
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school and later went to college and getting a master degree plus a well-pay career bring you wealth. Being poor to wealthy or being rich and staying rich as a child to an adult‚ does the wealth usually bring you happiness? In the novel "Great Expectation‚" Pip is a character who as a child become a wealthy person from a poor background family. As he grew up in a poor childhood‚ an opportunity came up for him to become rich and surely he took that opportunity from a secret benefactor which was Magwitch
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Revenge‚ Sometimes Better Left Alone Society perceives revenge to be a one-way street to get back at someone‚ where only the single person ends up getting hurt. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens exemplifies revenge as a devious act that causes multiple people to get hurt. Miss Havisham received a broken heart on her wedding day‚ and ever since‚ she has been scheming a way to get back at the male gender. The likes of Miss Havisham and Orlick are set on exacting their revenge on someone
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In Othello‚ written by Shakespeare‚ tells tale of how dreams and goals will affect an individual in their live. The influence of dream and goals are important to everyone‚ not just one person. It how far ones willing to go in order to met their goals or have their dreams comes true. Unlike dreams goals are what people aim for. That implies doing so out coming thing or putting someone’s life at risk. Due to jealously‚ when Cassico had the same goal as Iago and he ended up achieving his goal‚ iago
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Life Ambitions Statement I feel like throughout my scouting life‚ I have learned leadership skills I would not have learned from traditional “team leadership” courses. I have used my leadership skills actively in my church and family life. For example‚ I have regularly been an assisting minister at my church‚ a feat which a lot of the churchgoers seem to be impressed with as this sets an example for other youth in my church community. Additionally‚ I have led group projects in school before‚ but
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