Martha Stewart Vs. Macbeth

Martha Stewarts Achievements

Martha Stewart didn’t grow up living a life of luxury, she grew up in New Jersey with four brothers and sisters. Her parents taught her to cook, sew and garden at a very young age.

She received a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City. She began to work as a model to pay for the expenses. She majored in Art, European History, and Architectural History. Fresh out of College she married Andrew Stewart, a law student. She went on with her modeling career, she was seen in commercials for; Breck, Clairol, Lifebuoy Soap, and Tareyton Cigarettes.

After she stopped modeling due to the birth of her daughter, she began a career as a stockbroker. She quit when a recession occurred in 1973 she quit, and her and her husband decided to restore an 1805 farmhouse. She began a catering business in the basement of her farmhouse, ten years later it became a million dollar enterprise. She then opened a retail store

Martha Stewart also wrote for the New York Times. And was editor and columnist for House Beautiful. She began producing, and was very successful doing that. She signed an advertising and consulting contract for KMART for $5 million. She began her TV show called Martha Stewart Living. She provided products for many different areas. She had branches in publishing, television, merchandising, and internet/direct commerce.

Martha Stewarts Downfall

A slip of good judgement caused Martha Stewarts downfall. She became greedy for more power and money, her greed over rode her good judgement. Media is very strong and makes a person looks worse than she is. Martha Stewart says it’s hard to escape the media, and this could be a factor in her downfall.

Martha Stewart’s fatal flaw was greed and dishonesty; she now has a name of being dishonest, a criminal and greedy.
Her crime was misleading a federal investigator and obstructing an investigation.

She served five months in prison.

Macbeth's Good Qualities

Macbeth was a person with outstanding quality for numerous reasons. Loyalty to the king and his country made everyone like him.

He was trustworthy as well as honest and those qualities were reasons to why Macbeth was crowned the titles, Thane of Fife and Thane of Cawdor.

Ambition was also another outstanding quality that set him apart from others in Scotland at the time. Although ambition can sometimes be taken as greed, Macbeth’s ambition at the start only pushed him to work hard and achieve things in an honest way. King Duncan as well as many others all respected Macbeth above many others.

Macbeth's Downfall

Once Macbeth found out that he was destined to become King he started being very greedy. He began plotting evil ways to become King, he ended up killing Duncan because he was power hungry.

Macbeth was influenced by Lady Macbeth to kill King Duncan, he was having doubts but she forced him into it. This is a fatal flaw because it is showing that he is easily manipulated.

At first he was ambitious but once he obtained power all he wanted was more, and he was willing to go to great lengths to get it, even if it was not in an honest way.

One of his fatal flaws was that he had a conscientious and guilt started to make him fall apart. He began to be very paranoid that people would find out how he became king, and he didn’t want to suffer the consequences.

Fatal Flaws

Macbeth

Too much ambition

Greedy

Power Hungry

Easily Manipulated

Martha Stewart

Too much ambition

Wanted the most out of everything she did

Dishonesty

Gave into media's pressure

Had a power trip because of all of her
accomplisments

Martha Vs. Macbeth

Martha Stewart and Macbeth are very ambitious people who want the most out of everything they do. They both had outstanding qualities and were remarkable people with huge accomplishments. They could have gone far in life if they had not been so greedy. They both had a tragic downfall which could have prevented if they had not been so power hungry.

Martha Stewart used dishonesty to try and further her accomplishments which lead to her down fall. Giving into media pressure also took a huge part in her downfall; A quote by Martha

"You'd leave that courtroom and more times than not there'd be a lot of photographers out there. And you'd have headings on a newsstand that you weren't supposed to look at. And little bits of conversation that you would hear on the subway that you weren't supposed to listen to. And yes, there was a buzz in the air about it."

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cooled
To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supped full with horrors.
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me"- Macbeth

Macbeth's downfall began when he started wanting to become King more than anything. Like Martha he wanted to further his accomplishments by any means possible. Towards the end of the play, he had committed so many evil acts that he no longer felt any remorse (view quote above.)

These two people are alike in many ways and met their tragic downfall because they let their power go to their head. Martha Stewart is an example of a modern day tragic hero, and Macbeth is the classic tragic hero. Greed, ambition, dishonesty and being power hungry, are all fatal flaws that these two people both possessed. Both were outstanding people and could've stayed that way if they had not let their flaws take over.