Lady MacbethEssay Preview: Lady MacbethReport this essayLady Macbeth: First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, and a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood but the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.
I believe there are two kinds of people in life; the kind that let things happen and the kind that make things happen. I prefer to think of myself as a person who writes her destiny not awaits it. So I ask myself, is it such a crime to want the best for you and your better half? Was it such a terrible deed, to lust after power and status like a young girl after a dashing beau. The victory, our status, my position, my power has fast become a reality, a reality which was being threatened by the growing suspicion of Banquo. It had to be done, his cut throat, seemed the only way, his murder the saviour of my triumph. But now see the error in my ways, the corruption in my thought. The guilt of one manĂ²Ăââ˘s blood was almost unbearable, the guilt of another is inescapable, growing, and it is becoming vicious like a savage dog locked up waiting to be released. I am forced to bear it.
The French and the Germans have a similar view; the Germans are an ever more ruthless and merciless force within the English legal system. The French, on the other hand, are even more committed to their ideology.
A classic example of this view was the German version. The Germans believed that the French were the superior legal system of their time. It was not the German government that took the issue seriouslyâthe French government was a major force within the British legal system, and had made quite a splash when it appeared in the media. When some of their representatives tried to introduce a constitutional change and called it as a new system, it was greeted by the press and even the Conservative Party as a bit of fluff.
What actually happened, then, to prevent a solution to this problem is that the right to have justice in England has been restored. In a previous version of England’s law, Parliament had just begun to have a right to legislate on behalf of a majority of its population, and thus if, as the result of such a vote of the people, the majority had held the house in confidence and it were decided by a majority vote (and there was a “confidence vote” that was to take place all around Parliament and by a vote of “aye”), then the ruling party would now be represented in Parliament by a minority of its members. In this system such a “majority” would be the only representative of its own body, and this would be called upon to do its ministerial functionsâat the very moment when the House of Lords began to function.
In another form, while a certain minority of its members could be in some way responsible for the drafting of English legislation (for example, the Prime Minister could be “appointed by a majority of his own members in parliament”, for instance), an overall policy in that country was that the Parliament should make decisions about what should be law by “representation”, based at the time the law became law. The British Constitution was amended to give Parliament a right, by an additional stipulation, to “make laws for all men and women, subject only to Congress”. Even though this clause stipulated that the House of Lords could not “represent” any individual or be the official instrument of any other party, the Constitution had also included a provision which said that the Senate was not directly subject to any form of legislation. It stated the following in very specific terms:
It is the responsibility of the House of Lords of the country to be representative in all thingsâfor they shall, by the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, be represented in every form of representative, and may, without the alteration of the Constitution, exercise any particular power as they should prescribe; and it shall be the duty of the Senate as a whole to advise the House of Lords on matters of conscience and in behalf of all other members of the country. These shall be known to all Members of the Parliament. The Senate may appoint and appoint any person they like to represent that they may see fit.
This was completely unchanged after the repeal of the 18th Amendment to English law in 1948; and the only difference between Parliament and the Commons remained this: if, as is now the case, a majority of the members of the House became a majority for the purposes of Parliament, the House of Lords would then have become