FSE #5

This post relates back to the first one about when I was first introduced to human trafficking. Today, rather than discussing the nature of the world, I'd like to focus rather on the nature of the individual humans. Like the world, we have also turned our head to the evils lurking around our planet. I though really hard about why my aunt hadn't helped the boy and also why I hadn't helped the boy. It wasn't because I did not want to help the boy, I simply didn't know any better and left. This reminds me of Macbeth because he too only does things that are told to him and he doesn't know any better. Macbeth isn't a free thinker, he's encased by Lady Macbeth and the weird sisters' words that force him to do what he's done. He knew that killing Duncan was a negative thing to do just as I had known turning my back on that child was bad, but he still did it because he was told by someone with more power than him to do it. Even the things that Macbeth does after having killed Duncan isn't part of his free will. Killing Banquo was all due to the influences that the weird sisters had on Macbeth; without them, he would never had turned on his best friend or his king. We can also see Macbeth also has a noble character as he feels guilt towards the murder of his king and is deprived of sleep ever since.

Sometimes our emotions get the better of our judgement, like with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Their conscious should have told them that killing Duncan was a bad idea, yet their emotions craved the power that would come with being king and queen and overwhelmed them. Just as Lady Macbeth's outer appearance was the opposite of her true intent, her judgement was also the opposite of her emotional drive and this is why Macbeth and her both are unable to sleep after this incident. This differences between our emotions, our own judgements, and our actions are all examples of how fair is foul and foul is fair is found in the text  as well as the real world.