Macbeth's id represents his actions toward other individuals in the play to satisfy his pleasure urge to be king, while his ego represents his ambitions of becoming a king and how he intends to fulfill his hidden desire. ... With no pity to give the innocent individuals he shall approach the opportunity and act immediately without considering if it will do good or bad to his own existence. ... Macbeth's ambitions and desires that are controlled by the id cannot be completely met without the help of his ego. ... Macbeth's superego appears whenever he utters his own thoughts after...

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Flaws are found in everyone's personality, however, as people mature and grow older, they tend to eliminate the defects in their own characters. ... Macbeth's change in character can be attributed to his own ambition, his wife's domination and persistence, or even the influence of the witches. ... He becomes a trapped victim of his own actions. ... However, no matter how great the persuasion and temptation, the main cause for his actions is his own greedy ambition. ... As a result, Macbeth's greatest enemy is not Macduff, Banquo or the three witches, but his own imaginati...

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Rather than take his own life, Hamlet's apprehensions about the afterlife coerce him to endure his existential crisis. ... He sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two close friends of Hamlet, to account "which dreams indeed are [his] ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream" (2.2.257-59). ... The actions of others around Hamlet facilitate this crisis, but ultimately, Hamlet leads himself to his own madness. ... In conclusion, Hamlet's fear of death is what keeps him from taking his own life. ...

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Johnson's subject had to separate himself from his prominent family in order to be his own man, or "hang or drown at last," which symbolizes a freedom to live of die as he wishes. When Johnson uses the word "guardian" in line 25 he is referring to his own childhood but not to his parents. ... Johnson not only uses "A Short Song of Congratulation" as praise to another, but also as an escape from his own reality through another persons actions and similar triumphs. ... He writes, "It is true that the first 342 of the 368 lines of the poem recount in depressing detail the failure to insure h...

• Word Count: 1734
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