Macbeth And The Lottery Ticket Analysis - 1160 Words

Relationships play key roles in many books and stories. A relationship can be a close bond with someone or multiple people. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and Anton Chekhov’s short story The Lottery Ticket brings up the idea of wealth in relationships. Wealth takes people in these books from middle to higher status, whether this is in reality or in a dream. The relation of wealth is shown through the characters Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, and the Dmitritch’s. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth along with the Dmitritch’s share these qualities of wealth in a relationship. Both couples are in the middle class, but both also desire more money. The relations are similar with wealth, but different because Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are power hungry for†¦show more content†¦They want enough wealth to make their dreams and desires come true. By thinking they have won the wealth, makes them want to do bad things to each other. So only one can have the wealth, but ins tead both will have to share. Their wealth is shown as a form of a lottery ticket as when winning it Ivan is said to be doing this â€Å"Ivan Dmitritch gave a broad, senseless smile, like a baby when a bright object is shown it† (The lottery Ticket, 101). This displays how the relationship of Ivan and his wife works around this wealth. As Ivan cares, so much about the money, their relationship gets a second of a strong feeling of goodness towards this amount of money. Their relationship demonstrates wealth, when Dmitritch finds out he is going to be rich. He easily is turned into a child, expressing the love of Ivan and his wife have over wealth because of living a middle-class status for a long time. Both Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare added the concept of wealth to these relationships because usually a man and women are happy with just each other. But in these stories, they are representing how wealth can make anyone happy at the same time destroy a relationship. We alth is shown through women in these books, as the women introduce the concept of wealth. Which contradicts, how women do not earn a living in these stories. Wealth can be revealed by women, as they are the real wealth behind it all. Showing the reader that wealth just leads to loneliness and that females