The Shocking Similarities Between Donald Trump and Macbeth

Macbeth's Tragic Flaw and Donald Trump's Vaulting Ambition

The Play Macbeth Explores The Themes Of Betrayal, Deception, Ambition And Fate. But The Story Of Macbeth Is About Much More Than Power. The True Tragedy Is Of Extreme Pride, What The Greeks Called Hubris; a Vice From Which The Powerful Are Most At Risk. Their Power Carries Them Away And They Pay No Heed To Justice Or Compassion Or Other Human Qualities. Macbeth Is 2 Study In Hubris.

Does President Trump's Rise To Power Parallel Macbeth’s, Whose “Vaulting Ambition” Led To Murder, Civil War, And His Own Eventual Destruction?

Can The Defiance Of Muammar Gaddafi Be Described As Straight Out Of Macbeth? Can One Say The Same Of The Fall Of Saddam Hussein, Or See Parallels In The Bloody Turmoil That Is Syria Today?

The aim of this paper is to discuss the shocking similarities between the American President Donald Trump and Macbeth, the renowned tragic hero of Shakespeare. Macbeth led himself into the path of self-destruction, was trapped in his vaulting ambition. This pressurized him to murder people to be successful and even to the civil war. He met the weird sisters to gain power and made many unethical decisions to keep that power in his hand.

The critics have started to compare the American president with this epic character as despite his past rampant narcissism, volatile temperament and all the bad behavior, he has risen to power. Here three witches of Macbeth were Steve Bannnon, Breitbert News and Julian Assange (Younge). The first one is the political operative planning for Trump’s presidential campaign, second developed Trump’s conspiracy theories and their doomed the campaign of the opposition.

Now after grabbing the power, like Macbeth, Trump is not pretending to play nice and doing everything necessary for remaining in the power (Independent.co.uk). He has denied all the allegations destroyed his accusers and piled lie about Hillary. In order to hide the treat of being uprooted by the common people he has started to showcase how the establishment is conspiring against him. In Macbeth, the birnam wood were moving towards to castle and ended the era of oppression of Macbeth. Now the media is playing the role of birnam wood behind which the actual oppositions are hiding to attack the lying empire of Donald Trump.

References

Independent.co.uk. "Will Trump Be Removed From Office? Here's What Would Have To Happen". The Independent, 2020, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/will-trump-be-removed-from-office-impeached-presidents-senate-trial-a9297031.html.

Younge, Gary. "Donald Trump’S Sanity Is Not The Question. The Real Issue Is How He Got Into Office". The Guardian, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/18/donald-trump-sanity-free-market-white-supremacist-nationalism.