Ambition is portrayed in a vast variety of ways from determined persistence to greed driven thirst for power. The unforgiving desire to achieve one’s goal can lead to victorious success as shown in the movie, Gattaca by Andrew Niccol, or a plummeting corruption of the mind, displayed in the William Shakespeare play, Macbeth. Throughout these […]

To convey the idea that ‘power corrupts the mind’ throughout the play of Macbeth, Shakespeare uses a broad range of various language features and literary devices in order to give an insight into his own thoughts and opinions on the complexity of the human mind, specifically his character, Macbeth. This includes metaphors, verse structure, soliloquies, […]

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