Macbeth From The Tragedy Of Benito Mussolini And Macbeth

When thinking of a leader to compare and contrast Macbeth to from the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare to, you wouldn’t really think that Benito Mussolini would have anything in common with him. That’s actually not the case at all. It seems like Macbeth and Mussolini wouldn’t have similarities. Mussolini was named after the Mexican Revolutionary war hero Benito Juarez. He was born in July 1883, and was predisposed at an early age to socialism, when he began to read the writings of Sorel and Nietzshe. Their belief was that the use of forced was commended and that any weakness of a person wasn’t acceptable. Mussolini and Macbeth don’t differ that much, they have more comparisons than meets the eye. Macbeth and Mussolini’s downfalls, alliances, relentlessness, paranoia or fear, and their ends are being compared, while their motivation, the extent of their rule, their support and final decisions will be contrasted.

Macbeth can be defined as a tragic hero. In the beginning, Macbeth was moral and then he derives into lunacy. But his soliloquy in the play, presented an understanding into his own cognition. Just like Macbeth, Mussolini was a socialist and an activist for the working class at the start as well. Mussolini damned war; he convicted it as “workers fighting other workers”. But after seeing WWI, Mussolini actually started to endorse war, “Today I am forced to utter loudly and clearly insincere good faith, the fearful, and fascinating word- war!” Mussolini’s downfall corresponds to the disastrous change in character in Macbeth. Their alliances, along with their downfalls can compare to one another because, these alliances kept them in power.

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...y ambition, but by his aspiration for wanting to make Italy the supreme nation of the universe. Mussolini was exceedingly patriotic, which can be represented by the quote “ All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” Macbeth and Mussolini’s treacherous extent hurt their land and the people living under their rule.

Macbeth’s native land was distraught by the end of his rule due to his descend into madness. “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face”, this quote is representing the extent of Macbeth’s reign as this man who eventually goes insane due to his paranoia. In contrast, Mussolini’s alliance with Hitler led Italy into three wars. The extent of his reign caused Mussolini to be ultimately be responsible for two-hundred thousand death, even though he didn’t directly kill those people.