Attitude Toward Power Essay

Both Ulysses and Macbeth were able to gain power of kingship, but the way they gained the powers are different. In this attempt I am going to compare how they regard power, both differently and similarly. I intend to use Heinemann, (1994), version of Macbeth by Shakespeare and the class handout of Ulysses. The master(prenominal) focus of Macbeth will be from Act1 Scene 7, lines 1-28 and Act 2 Scene 1, line 33-61, whilst I will as well as take account of other think part throughout the play.Since Lord Tennyson and William Shakespeare are from different era in the history, their perspective of the world will be different, therefore I will also mention about Shakespeares and Lord Tennysons different perspective towards power and language they used. Most great writers reflect their attitude to life on their work, so it is important to consider the social and historical background of the Jacobeans- the time when Shakespeare wrote the play, and the Victorian time, when Lord Tennyson was alive.In Victorian times, Britain was a powerful country. There were unlimited opportunities for mainly the upper class people to broaden their knowledge by going to new places and experience the foreign cultures. When Lord Tennyson wrote this poem, he was grieving oer his best friends death. By writing this poem he was able to express his emotional feeling as well as to bias him to let it go. He also had the opportunities to tell people that it is never too late to seek a newer world.For examples, Ulysses new world would be the aft(prenominal) life world and Lord Tennysons new world would be the world without his best friend. At the end of Macbeth, the moral we get is that never to fumble the line of Divine Order. During Jacobean time, they believed that the duty of the King is chosen by God They believed that every living organism has an order and it is decided by God, this is make the Divine Order. If one decides to go against the Divine Order, like killing the King to be t he monarchy himself then, he had done something that is very morbid during the Jacobeans going against God.Shakespeare tried assign that by the cost of Macbeth have to face after he had murdered the King, one example is that he lost his respects from his courtiers and at the end he was all by himself. Jacobeans were also very superstitious they believed that witches are evil because they worship demon, so if there was a plague or a congenital disaster, they blamed on the witches they are first put to trials and then was executed, mainly hanged or burned. Because Shakespeare made Macbeth associate with the witches by talking and worse of all believe them, that made Macbeth evil.Shakespeare did this to please his King, King James, as he was against the supernatural and was able help King James to spread the evilness of the witches through his play. The poem, Ulysses started by a slow rhythm. Lord Tennyson managed this by using the words with long vowels such as, hoard, and sleep, a nd feed. These words give us the sense of dullness and mundane, which was how Ulysses feels at the beginning. However, as we go further down the poem, the dullness was decrease as he started to talk about his adventurous days.