Macbeth Hero's Journey Analysis

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Macbeth and Scotland P.A. The hero’s journey is a base for a story. It has a main character that starts in an ordinary world but then has a big change. The main character has to go through many tasks that ultimately will lead to a bigger and more important problem. Although Macbeth isn’t the story of a hero but a villain it still fallows the heroes’ journey model. Macbeth starts of in an ordinary world as the thane of Glamis, but a decision that he decides to make after several hours of contemplating changes his life. Macbeth starts off as the Thane Glamis. A war just ended and he led an army to victory. While walking with his best friend Banquoa, they ran into three witches. These witches are also is mentor. They tell Macbeth that he is…show more content…
Then he gets a message that he is thane of Cawdor. At this point he starts to believe the three witches. Later they find out that the first son of the king will be next in line for the throne. That leads to Macbeth’s first test, to kill the king or not. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife and she wants him to kill the king. Macbeth bounces back and forth with his decision to kill the king or not. Eventually he decides that he is not going to do it until Lady Macbeth talks him into doing the deed. Macbeth killing Duncan changes his ordinary life into a special world where it is okay to kill the king. His next trial was what he was going to about his suspicious best friend Banquo. To keep his reputation safe Macbeth decides to kill Banquo. Doing this raised a lot of suspicion and created a lot of enemies. Because Macbeth keeps killing people to keep himself on the throne all the lords start to hate him and want his tyranny to end. Macduff is one of those lords and he went to England to speak with Duncan’s oldest son about getting army together…show more content…
the main character Mac is an employee in a burger joint. Him and his wife have been working there for a long time and still have gotten nowhere. One day while working his shift some teenagers cause trouble and Mac is the one to throw them out. This gets him praise but not a raise. Later he gets told by his bestfriend Banco that his manager has been stealing money from the register for awhile. After Mac hears that he goes and tells the owner of the restaurant Duncan about it and Duncan fires the manager. Mac becomes the next manager but this is still not enough. While walking home one night Mac runs into two stoners who take him to a third stoner that is an oracle. They tell him of a system that makes it so you don’t have to get out of your car to order, the drive-thru. Mac and his wife have a meeting with Duncan about ways to improve the sales. Mac brings up the drive-thru and Duncan is very impressed with the idea. Mac and his wife aren’t happy with where they are at in the business so they decide that they will steal from Duncans safe. They tie up Duncan and force him to tell them the combination to the safe. After he finally gives them the combination Mac punches him in the face and Duncan falls into the fryers. In this movie the Death of Duncan was an accident, but now that it has happened there is no going back. The restaurant was inherited by Duncan’s oldest son Malcom. Malcom sells the restaurant to Mac for a very cheap price. At this point a new
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