Power and Ambition in Macbeth | Explained with Modern Lessons | English Literature Presentation

Описание: 📘 Title: Power and Ambition in Macbeth – Lessons for Today
🎓 Presented by: Sanjay Rathod
📚 Paper: Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration Periods (Paper 101)
🏫 Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

This video is my college presentation on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
It explores how power, ambition, moral corruption, identity, guilt, and institutional collapse are portrayed in the play — and how these themes still apply in today’s political and corporate world.

🔍 Topics Covered in the Presentation
(Referencing your Table of Contents from page 3 )

PART 1: The Descent
When ambition becomes dangerous
Manipulation, masculinity & gender codes
The moral point of no return
The illusion of security in power
PART 2: The Consequences
Psychological cost of guilt
Fragmentation of identity
Impact on society & communities
The emptiness of immoral success
PART 3: Lessons for Today
Ethical leadership in modern contexts
Why corruption repeats across history
What Macbeth teaches modern institutions
Conclusion & reflections
📜 Important Quotes from the Play
Included in the presentation:
“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself…” (I.vii)
“Macbeth does murder sleep…” (II.ii)
“Life’s but a walking shadow…” (V.v)
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus…” (III.i)
📖 References Used
Birenbaum, Harvey – Consciousness and Responsibility in Macbeth
Dungey, Nicholas – Macbeth and Fragility of Political Order
Firkins, O.W. – The Character of Macbeth
Holderness, Graham – Are Shakespeare’s Heroes Fatally Flawed?
Horwich, Richard – Integrity in Macbeth
Hossain & Habib – Power, Ambition & Corruption in Macbeth
Ramsey, Jarold – The Perversion of Manliness in Macbeth
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth, Arden Edition
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