Play Written by William Shakespeare,

¶ … play written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is probably one of the most well-known plays written on international level. The tragedy tells the story of a ruthless Scottish lord that murders the king in order to ascend to the throne. The plot of the play is very interesting and presents numerous changes in the course of action. In his attempt to reach the throne of Scotland, Macbeth is helped by his wife and by a group of witches. There are also other people helping Macbeth that turn against him. Basically, the entire play is a long line of betrayals, murders, and thirst for power.

Although the play was written a few centuries ago, there are numerous analogies that can be made between the situations in the play and current situations. The most important idea that the play centers on is represented by the quest for power, for leading a larger group. This can be applied on political level to parties or individuals that want to become presidents, prime-ministers, but it can also be applied in different companies where certain managers are interested in becoming the leaders in those companies.

Macbeth tells the story that provides a negative example, and not the example that should be applied (King, 2011). But the actions in Macbeth can be observed in numerous plays of power in politics and companies. In politics, there are electoral campaigns that start with two candidates, one running for presidency, and one that will be appointed as prime-minister. There are situations where the politician that is considered to go after the prime-minister chair changes his mind, together with the political group that backs him up, and decides that he wants to run for presidency. Therefore, in order to reach this objective, he and his group must politically murder the individual the runs for presidency.

Of course, this can only be possible with the help of the group of witches that in this group is represented by groups of other politicians and other stakeholders that represent different groups of interest (BBC, 2012). In case this scenario is applied, the politician that becomes Macbeth must face the attacks of his opponents, but also of other members of his party that have seen the possibility of ascending the presidency. In other words, they have seen that this is possible, and they want to do the same for themselves.

In certain companies we can observe how the Macbeth play is put into action. In any company there are individuals that want to ascend to the throne. In other words, individuals on lower positions are interested in becoming the presidents, owners, or chief executive officers of the company in case. This idea of possibility came into their mind from a group of witches. This group of witches is the analogy for a group of interest within the company that is interested that the individual in case because the leader of the company. This is usually intended in order to help the group of interest reach its objectives through this person.

This group of interest presents a powerful vision to the person that wants to become leader of the company. They make him believe that it is possible, and necessary. They put into action a series of strategies. The person becomes the leader of the company, but soon notices that its ruling cannot be a peaceful one. This is because the group that helped him get the power wants to be rewarded for this. Therefore, they ask the leader to do things that he does not agree with. The leader thinks that it is necessary to eliminate this group that helped him first, but that now does not let him rule in accordance with his intentions. But the group is more powerful in comparison with the leader, and decides that this leader does not satisfy their needs. Therefore, they must find another Macbeth that they help become the leader of the company in order to help them reach their objectives.

As it can be observed, the plot in the Macbeth play written by Shakespeare can be applied to the current era, in numerous fields. There are several analogies that can be observed between the plot and the play and what currently takes place within different systems. This refers mostly to the political and organizational systems, but it can be applied to other systems also. Therefore, it is important to understand the basic line of the play, which is represented by the quest for power. In addition to this, it is important to understand and to identify the mechanisms that were used in the play in order to help Macbeth reach the power he wanted, but also what happens after he reaches this objective.