During this essay I will be discussing an investigation into the nature of ambition and how it is employed and shown across a different text by different authors that lead us deeper into their insight of this very different drive. How they also conveyed different types of ambition (Intrinsic and Extrinsic, intrinsic being a type […]

Andrew Niccol’s 1997 film Gattaca, set in a dystopian future where genetics are heavily advanced, where you are either an “Invalid” or faith birth are not genetically modified or you are a “Valid” who are genetically modified to be the perfect human who is modified into their future careers from birth. The contrast between “Invalid” and […]

William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” referred by actors and Theatre-makers as the “The Scottish Play” as the dark spirits throughout the play are s\owed through clever language conventions both literal and metaphorical. Throughout the play you see Macbeth go through a very varying range of mental status, ranging from despair, sadness and confusion in what he should […]

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