Macbeth Themes & Motifs: Making Connections: Contemporary Context

Ambition:

Ambition - Someone who wants to achieve a goal or a dream and will do anything to achieve it.

Examples:

1. A student who does extra homework, stay in to study and asks lots of questions achieves the highest mark in the class and gets honour role.
2. Some one striving to become Prime Minister at the age 45.

http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/the-pursuit-of-happyness/internship

( Mini movie clip showing a man going after his dreams no matter his age.)

Fate and Free will:

Fate - An event that inevitably occurs regardless of human action.

Free will - Free and independent choice or voluntary decision.

What forces decide our destinies

......is it fate?

Examples:

• Religion
• History
• War and peace
• Rise and fall of empires

...or is it free will?

Examples:

• Revolution
• Innovation
• Social reform
• Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSeWHl1PaKs

( Movie trailer that displays fate and free will)

Appearances and reality:

Appearance - How and what someone appears to be

Reality - Who the person really is

Examples:

1. Photoshop sets high standards for beauty that can't be met and leads to depression and sometimes suicide.
2. Social media sites allow people to use social media to create prefect life that is ideal to them, but is so far from the actually truth.
3. Celebrities set the standards on how we must act, what we must wear, how we comfort ourselves and we don't even realize it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIbKyQtx-w

(video clip displaying a models transformation in seconds)