Some people ask, what is ambition? Ambition is either a strive for a certain goal that helps us as human beings develop over time, not to mention we work better under pressure. Another way of describing ambition is to poison someone’s mind, to continuously stab them in the back towards the evil within them. In the play, film & poem of Gattaca, Macbeth, Ozymandias & Thanos, I truly believe these are all significant connections with ambition whether if it’s bad or not.
1. In the film Gattaca, Ambition is output to us all in a positive and enlightened way and is heavily balanced towards Vincent, a defect with a heart disease who had only 30-32 years of lifespan, making good use of it was to team with Jerome “Eugene” Morrows, with the expertise of blood samples and fake fingerprint ID’s and most importantly urine samples if you ask em goes down the drain quite quickly “There’s more vodka in this piss than there is piss!” putting that out of the way now. As Vincent had made his achievement after escaping his brother Anton, and sending himself to space, Jerome had nothing of purpose to do besides having to help Vincent, so he took his own life to just to see Vincent go off to space.
2.Ambition within the ancient Play Macbeth shows that ambition is heavily unbalanced towards the main villain Macbeth, he starts out as a soldier within King Duncan’s army, a strong bond between his friend Banquo and King Duncan himself allows Macbeth to have built up a relationship with the king himself. Over time, Macbeth becomes corrupt and untrustworthy with some of his own colleagues, Imagine this for me, in the dawn of morning, Macbeth is within the kitchen with his wife and Macduff, and all of a sudden you hear “O Horror!, horror!, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot concieve nor name thee!” It was Macduff! Crying out something horrific had happened, the murder of King Duncan was a desperate way of describing ambition.
3. Ozymandias: Both Macbeth And Ozymandias have a breath for power, they shared the appearance of having greed and power by their sides. By portraying themselves as almighty and powerful. He gives himself the role as the almighty “King Of Kings” No matter what you achieved or how far you get in life, all of that powerful ambition will eventually be a thing of the past, making it extremely difficult reach out and find it again. Making it impossible for any positive energy to flow into someone’s mind. From what I’ve seen in this Poem. There is nothing more than dust and rubble within the mind of Ozymandias, even if he were dead it wouldn’t matter.
Thanos: Thanos‘ yes I said it, the purple shriveled prune that goes around in space with an oven mitten, his goal is to eliminate half the life in the universe using the stones’ incredible power, but he doesn’t do that for no reason. Thanos believes that the only way to save the universe is to thin out the life in it, to eliminate conflict for resources that would otherwise lead to death and suffering. This specific character relates back to Macbeth, he will do anything to get his way in life including Ozymandias who wants everything in his power and command, but that ends up going into nothing too. So how does Thanos relate to both of these desperate character for ambition? Well let’s trace back to Infinity war, where Thanos had started to search for the stones