THERE ARE TWO TRAGEDIES IN
LIFE, ONE IS NOT TO GET YOUR HEART’S DESIRE, THE OTHER IS TO GET IT. The
quotation is from Bernard Shaw‘s play “MAN AND SUPERMAN” . It applies to human
life rather accurately. The non fulfillment of a desire is like a fire burning
deep inside the heart without a flame. If we desire for a Red Ferrari/Bungalow
and a bank balance then we must have the necessary money resources to translate
it into a practice. If we don’t do it, then we encounter with a tragedy and we
get it. Another chain of complications raises that to maintain the wealth or add
more to it, leads to the pursuit of adopting illegal means to achieve the end.
If we take the example of MACBETH, in the tragic play “MACBETH” by Shakespeare.
He becomes restless and he is assured of kingship of Scotland by three witches.
Lady Macbeth incites and manipulates Macbeth to murder the king, the king
murdered by Macbeth. Thereafter he commits a chain of murders for keeping his
kingship intact. Macbeth shows a troubled look on his face. He says that it is
better to be dead like King than to be alive and suffer the mental torture. Lady
Macbeth loses balance of her mind and becomes mad. She dies and Macbeth is also
killed. The desire and over ambition of becoming emperor of the kingdom of
Scotland destroys his life. It’s a great saying that:
“AMBITION DESTROYS ITS POSSESOR.”
When a man desire for something, it become a passion, ambition or a destination
for him. If a man cant’t achieves its destination he himself destroys his life
due to extreme frustration/depression or after achieving the destination, the
passion act like a poison in his life. In both conditions his life becomes a
living hell which ends up at great tragedy. It is rather impossible to keep
ambition within the reasonable limits. An ambition ceases to be an ambition if
it could be restricted within limits. If there is anything without limits that
is ambition. Napoleon won victories after victories and attained all powers of
Europe. The European powers joined together to crush Napoleon’s ambition. He was
crushed at the hands of his ambition and desires. Likewise Alexander had the
ambition of conquering the whole world but did not succeed. These examples from
the history indicate the unsatisfaction of the heart and soul whether desires
fulfilled or not.