Netflix and Kill ;)

I was gonna say something clever about Lady Macbeth but let's be honest.. Winter break is in three days and we're all exhausted, so this is as much of an intro as you're gonna get.
So here ya go.. Lady Macbeth's Netflix Queue:

1) Burn Notice:

Well I had to include this one because its one of my all time favorite shows, but also because Lady Macbeth would really enjoy it too (hmm... coincidence??).  The main character Michael Weston is an ex-spy, who now has to make a living by doing jobs outside of the law.  This connects to the Lady herself because she was willing to do whatever it took to get in power, she manipulated her boo thang and was willing to lie and kill to be queen.  This parallels Michael who is willing to do anything to find out who burned him.

2) Parks and Rec:

Great show 10/10, would recommend.  Especially to Lady Macbeth, who would really connect with Leslie Knope.  Leslie is the deputy director of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department where she is very intent on micromanaging everything.  She might even give Kelly's favorite unsex me speech before going into work everyday because her staff won't be man enough to get everything done!  Added bonus, she freaks out when things don't go well.. aka when things go downhill in Act V and Lady Macbeth just kinda dies.  

3) Breaking Bad:

Classic Lady Macbeth right here.  I shouldn't even have to explain it, next.

4) Arrow:

The Arrow is a hooded vigilante that protects Starling city from evil.  However, no one knows that the hooded figure is Starlings favorite billionaire Oliver Queen who came back from the dead (long story, he was trapped on an island and turned into a ninja).  Anyway, as you can imagine money causes problems and Oliver's dear mommy isn't who she claims to be.  Lady Macbeth would really enjoy Oliver's Mom, Moira Queen, because she gets involved in a ghastly "undertaking" that tries to wipe out over half the cities inhabitants!  She is an crooked, lying, manipulative woman (wow I sound like Trump)  who begins to lose her mind after realizing what she's done.  Connects to Lady Macbeth and the guilt she felt that caused her to sleep walk and such.  

Back to #3 because I need the points...

For those of you who don't know the story, Walter White is a school teacher who has cancer.  He can't afford the treatments and must find more lucrative payment options.  And the obvious choice is of course, Meth (even though his brother is DEA, but whatever).  He pulls a true Lady Macbeth on his local dealer, you know the whole "you're really good at this, you could run this block better than that other guy, let's take over" sort of thing.  Basically he manipulates a former student into making meth with him and then selling it.  He rises to power using this kid as a puppet (like Lady Macbeth used Macbeth to gain power) but the whole thing was doomed to fail from the beginning because Walter had cancer, just like Macbeth was doomed to fail because of the prophecy by the three witches.  

Witch-slapped: Macbeth's fall from grace

Question 2.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton

The quote by Lord Acton bears a very striking resemblance to a quote from spiderman saying that "with great power comes great responsibility".  Both quotes talk about the corruptive nature of power and how it affects people.  Whether you are  a senior in high school or a playwright in the 16th century England named Shakespeare you will agree with Lord Acton's quote.  Shakespeare definitely would have agreed with Acton's quote based in his play Macbeth, the idea of gaining absolute power corrupts the main character Macbeth and causes him to commit some nasty actions.  

In my own experience power tends to have a negative affect on those who hold it.  Rather than to cite an example from my own life I would like to bring up how the power of the Ring of Power in the The Lord of the Rings corrupts anyone who wears it.  The ring enhanced the powers that the wearer already had, but it came at a cost.  The ring corrupted anyone who wore it into becoming evil and selfish to their own desires.  This was demonstrated by Gollum who would do anything to retrieve the ring.  This just shows that having large amounts of power is very dangerous and the wielder of absolute power will lose themself while trying to keep it.  

Based on Shakespeare's play, "MacBeth", he would have agreed with Acton's quote because of the way Macbeth is corrupted by power.  When MacBeth first hears from the witches that he will be thane of Cawdor, Glamis and be king he doesn't believe it, but when he becomes thane of Cawdor and Glamis, he begins to desire the throne.  The power of being the king of Scotland corrupts Macbeth before he even takes the throne, because he had to kill King Duncan to do so.  And he grows even more corrupt still when he orders his best friend Banquo to be killed, stating that he had to because the Witches "hailed him father to a line of kings.  Upon my [Macbeth's] head they placed a fruitless crown" (Act 3 Sc 1 lines 66-67).  He is so worried about holding onto the power he has as king that he is willing to kill his best friend and his best friend's son so that no one can take his spot on the throne.  Had it not been for the corrupting power of the throne he would never have killed his friend, who he fought alongside in many battles.  Shakespeare wrote in the play that Macbeth's position as king is the reason he killed Banquo so therefore Shakespeare definitely believed in the corruption caused by absolute power. 

Power is tricky, it is the thing most people will spend their entire life in search of (because wealth is a form of power), yet it is something that can rob us of who we really are.  Through Shakespeare's works it can be concluded that he too agreed with Lord Acton's adage, that "absolute power corrupts absolutely".