POWER AND CORRUPTION

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• POWERANDCORRUPTION
• The World at the Hands of Corrupted Men
• By Jenna, Kristin and Shantel

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DEFINITIONS

• Power a person, group, or nation having great
  influence or control over others.
• Corruption the act or result of corrupting
  (ruining or subverting the honesty or integrity
  of).

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RISE TO POWER

• Macbeth gained his kingship through unscrupulous
  means. After hearing the three witches
  prophecies and their predictions for Macbeth to
  become king, Lady Macbeth helps him devise a plan
  to murder Duncan. While their beloved leader lies
  dead and his son flees to England, Macbeth is
  given the throne.
• "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of
  Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of
  Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king
  hereafter."

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Adolf Hitler

• Adolf Hitlers rise to power began in 1919 after
  the German Empire was defeated and the nations
  economy lay in ruins.
• He joined a small group of men called the Nazis
  and quickly became their leader.

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• At first Hitler was not taken seriously, but his
  fiery words and brilliant blue eyes seemed to
  hypnotize people.
• He made them believe he was their friend.
• In 1933, Hitler became dictator of Germany and
  regained some of the land lost in WWI.

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• The key to Hitler and Macbeths success was their
  profound communicational techniques.
• They were extremely skilled in persuading others
  to fulfill their demands.
• These men succeeded in brainwashing their
  followers so that they honestly believed that
  terrible acts such as persecuting Jews and
  murdering the enemy were justified.

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• Macbeth talked the murderers into believing
  Banquo was their enemy. This lead to the murder
  of Banquo.
• Know that it was he in the times past which held
  you so under fortune, which you thought had been
  our innocent self this I made good to you in our
  last conference passd in probation with you,
  how you were borne in hand, how crossd the
  instruments, who wrought with them.

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Hitler told people what they wanted to hear in
order to get what he wanted- power and
wealth. It wasnt the intellectuals who gave me
the courage to start this huge task. It was from
two classes alone the German farmers and
workers. If freedom is short of weapons, we
must compensate with willpower.
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HOW THEY USED THAT POWER

• Had I power, I should pour the sweet milk of
  concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace,
  confound All unity on earth.
• It can be said that Hitler and Macbeth ruined
  their countries.

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• Macbeth transformed Scotland into a dismal place
  to live
• Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry,
  new sorrows Strike heaven on the face that it
  resounds As if it felt with Scotland, and yelld
  out Like syllable of dolour.

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• With his power, Hitler promised to rebuild
  Germany into a mighty empire that would last a
  thousand years. Instead, he provoked WWII in
  1939, spreading terror and death through much of
  the world.

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• With his racial views, thirst for power and ideas
  of a perfect world, Hitler succeeded in murdering
  millions of people he believed to be racially
  inferior, six million of which came from a Jewish
  background. He and his Nazis abused them, robbed
  them of their homes and life styles, locked them
  in concentration camps, and executed them.

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• Germany became a nation of uniforms, goose
  stepping to Hitlers tune, where boys of ten were
  taught to throw hand grenades and women were
  regarded as breeding machines.
• I swear by God that, for the leader of the
  German state and people, Adolf Hitler, I am ready
  to risk my life at any time.
• The party is Hitler. But Hitler is Germany and
  Germany is Hitler.
• Have no pity! Act brutally!

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• Hitler can be blamed for the destruction of
  Germany at the end of WWII.
• He severed relationships between Germany and
  neighboring countries, people and foreign friends
  for a lifetime.
• The bombing of Germany by the Allies was entirely
  his fault as he provoked feelings of resentment
  around the world.

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DOWNFALL

• Macbeth and Hitler are said to have met their own
  dooms.
• Macbeth was very overconfident in believing that
  he could not be killed by any man born of woman.
  This caused Macbeths death because he foolishly
  thought Macduff was incapable of killing him.
• Hitler was also overconfident and refused to
  listen to the advice of his generals even while
  Germany was being defeated in the last years of
  the war. This eventually led to his suicide.

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CHARACTER

• As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion,
  patience, courage, fortitude.
• Macbeth and Hitler both lacked these king
  becoming graces. This can partially account for
  their failure to become heroic leaders.

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• Fair is foul and foul is fair.
• Hitler and Macbeth appeared to be good but gave
  in to the temptations of a royal command.
  Underneath, these men were evil and corrupt in
  the worst ways.Macbeth was loyal to Duncan until
  he received the witchs prophecies.

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A good and virtuous nature may recoil in an
imperial charge. Angels are bright still,
though the brightest fell from Gods graces.
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• Even a generally good person can become corrupt
  when faced with the prospect of having power.
• Hitler and Macbeth were perfect candidates for
  this theory, as they were willing to go to
  extreme lengths to obtain their power. Once this
  was achieved, a few murders didnt take a
  second thought if it meant that their precious
  power would be maintained.
• In this sense, Macbeth and Hitler were truly
  alikeselfish and power hungry.

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THE NATURE OF MAN

• Men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great
  deal of grief in keeping company where there is
  no power able to overawe them all
• In the nature of man we find three principle
  causes of quarrel competition, diffidence, and
  glory.

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Competition, Diffidence, and Glory.

• The first makes men invade for gain, the second
  for safety, and the third for reputation.
• The first use violence to make themselves masters
  of other mens persons, the second to defend
  them, the third for trifles, as a word, a smile,
  a different opinion, and any other sign of under
  value, either direct in their persons or by
  reflection in their nation, their profession, or
  their name.
• During the time men live without power to keep
  them all in awe, they are in that condition which
  is called war, and such a war is of every man
  against every man

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CREDITS

• Quotes from Macbeth and Hitlers
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