macbeth essay

Jeff Lafountain

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3/17/09

Power Corrupts

During Macbeth the saying power corrupts is very true. Macbeth and his friend Banquo are walking through the woods on there way back home from battle. When three witches appear on the path, and of these three witches they all have some thing different to say. The one thing that sticks out to Macbeth the most is what the third witch says. “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(1/3/52) This interests Macbeth so much that he begins to be over whelmed with power. Macbeth is very devious in his actions causing him to do some thing that he soon will regret.
Macbeth is under a lot of stress due to his new position of Thane of Cawdor. His wife Lady Macbeth is not helping the fact that she heard what the witches said about Macbeth being king here after. Is being very manipulative about getting him to be king. The only way that Macbeth can even become king is if he kills King Duncan. Macbeth is enkindled by the strength and power that the thought of being king is having on him. Its will be the deciding factor when he over troughs king Duncan.
Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth is under a lot of stress when King Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle. “The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.”(1/5/40) when King Duncan is at Macbeth’s castle Macbeth and his wife are planning an evil scam to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is being corrupted by power in the case that all he wants is to be king and have more power but in order to do so he has to kill King Duncan. He kills King Duncan by using the drunken guard’s daggers to stab him to death. With no emotion he comes out of the room holding the daggers and staring into nothing.
After the act of killing king Duncan is all done and over Macbeth is faced with another bitter decision. On to kill his very close friend Banquo. When Macbeth haired arrogant assassins. But Macbeth was not very devious about hideing the fact that he had hired them. This causes Macbeth to go crazy and see Banquo’s ghost. At this part of the play is when Macbeth starts to lose his mind and get a little crazy.
Macbeth goes and sees the three witches again standing around there cauldron of boiling trouble. During this he finds out three new things, but the one thing that Macbeth needed to know to know was that no one could killed him born through a woman. The only thing was that Macduff was pulled from his mother’s womb. And this will happen when the trees attack. “When the army’s come through the woods” but Macbeth is going by the trees. And Macduff and his men come through the trees and begin to massacre all of Macbeth’s men. And it’s a stand off with Macbeth and Macduff.
By the end of the play all of the charters are turning against Macbeth. “Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth.” (4/3/63)This quote resembles to me that there can never be another king as bad and corrupt by power as Macbeth. Macduff kills Macbeth in a dull and he rightfully becomes king. All of the land is at peace and is very thankful that Macbeth is no longer the king.
It is safe to say that Macbeth was strongly corrupted by power that it leads to his down fall from king. And the UN doing of every thing he had worked for and done. The deaths of his own friend and the king where for nothing. All he has to show for his life was he was a shitty king but a great warier.

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sidd comes to america

Jeff lafountain
1/12/09
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Siddhartha comes to America

My name is Jeff lafountain and I have a story of how I flew my friend sidartha to America. I flew him to America sitting in coach to give him the expensive of all the bad seating, hectic people, and the sound of the annoying baby crying a row behind him the entire trip. Only because when I pick him up off the plane in Wyoming’s capital. This should be a very peaceful but yet fun place that he can enjoy.

He comes off the plane wearing nothing butt a robe the air port gave him and his loin cloth. I held up the sign that says my name so he could find me in the crowd. I asked “how was your flight?” and from what he said it had went exactly the way I had planed. He asked “why are we hare I thought you lived in South Carolina why aren’t we there?” Because I wanted to show you my roots and where it is that I come from. From the air port we drove the 8 miles to the town of Cheyenne where we where going to go to yellow stone national park to go see the wild life there. There is a lot of wide open space to do what ever it is that you want to do. I asked Siddhartha “what he would like to do.” He said “I would like to go meditate.” “If you want to but we will have to go deep, deep into the pasture where my favorite spot is.” It is filled with nice green, green, grass. Water running through the hills horses and cows drinking from the water not careing about a thing. “Ok” says Siddhartha “it would be just like when I meditate on my one back in India.” After we meditated for about 3 hours. I decided it was the perfect time to go and some work on the farm. Like milking cows, grooming horses, cutting the hay for to marrow, and re building the fence that the bull keeps kicking down. During our crazysession siddartha says “why cant you just higher some one to do this hard labor?” “because if you don’t do it you don’t feel half as satisfied as you would if you did it your self.” After our long days work we take a long nice soak in the hot tub. When all of a sudden my big surprise rolls up behind the barn.

It is the girls gone wild tour buss filled with to many girls to count. Siddarthas jaw dropped. “is this for me’ he said with great enthusiastic voice. “ yes it is, I figured that we could role in stile to south caralina to murttle beach. As we get on to the buss we are being over welmed by the very elegant collage girls, that are half dressed. From what I see siddartha is felling right at home. “ you know back home I had an in counter with a girl like these, butt it turns out she didn’t like me butt had a kid and now I have a son.” “realy I didn’t know that well these girls are nothing like that no strings attached.” As we are driving he is particeapateing in many strip teases pole dances and actually every thing that was going on.

We rolled into myrtle beach and there was 5 times more girls on the beach for the event than there was on the buss. All wearing biknies or paint on ones that are very distracting. We get up to the main stage where the brad praisley concert is taking place. During the concert I pushed him off the stage into the crowd where he crowed surfed. When he finaly got back to the stage he was written all over with girls numbers. “Why do you have all those numbers” he goes “there for brad, me, and you”. As the concert winded down my bigg finally had appeared a chopper that landed in the middle of the beach filled with more girls for him to bring home. As I said my good byes he says “thank you for such a good time in America.”