HOPES AND DREAMS

Hopes And Dreams Of Macbeth and Mr Bumble

Hopes And Dreams Of Macbeth and Mr Bumble

Thesis statement

“Hopes and dreams guide individual behavior”

Introduction

Every person has certain aims and ambitions in his life that he wants to fulfill. He pursues these dreams to a very extent and makes all efforts to achieve those dreams. These dreams may be beneficial for the people around the person. These dreams can also be harmful for the other people. However, a person who runs after achieving these dreams has the ability to shape his behaviours to avoid any harm to other people around him. We can find people who possess control over their desires and refrain from actions that can harm others while we can also for people who do not care about the benefit of others. Hence, it depends upon a peon that he chooses those behaviours that are appropriate and avoids those that are inappropriate. We can find the example of these behaviours by the characters of Mr. Bumble and Macbeth. Authors of these plays have very beautifully identified the ways by which people can shape their behaviours.

Discussion

Mr. Bumble

Mr. Bumble, was a fictional character of the famous novel Oliver Twist (1837-1839) written by Charles Dickens. Mr. Bumble is a cruel, and a snobbish beadle of the poor house, where an orphan, Oliver is raised. Bumbledom, who was named after him, also characterizes the similar meddlesome and self-importance shown by the minor bureaucrat. Mr. Bumble chooses to marry a poor house matron, known as Mrs. Corney, who was a tyrannical woman, and so she completely dominated him. As famously known that a husband has the legal responsibility for all of his wife's behaviour, Mr. Bumble was of the opinion that the law was foolish if it acted on this principle. The Bumbles befall as paupers in the similar poor house, where they once inflicted such unhappiness and damage (www.britannica.com).

Mr. Bumble, known for being pompous, and also a self-important beadle, served a minor church official, working for the workhouse, where Oliver is born. Despite the fact that Mr. Bumble preached Christian morality, he behaved with no compassion in the direction of the paupers under his care. Dickens cruelly satirizes his greed, self-righteousness, folly, and hypocrisy, because of which he became an obvious symbol. Mr. Bumble is a well known beadle in town, where the person Oliver was born. Serving as a beadle, he is in charge for running, all of the "generous" institutions in the rural community including the workhouse and the baby farms. He is also very found of a hat and gets to wears a special cocked cap, of which he also feels very proud. If the role of Mr. Grimwig can be reduced to one-sided character that can be signalled as an expression, Mr. Bumble can easily be condensed to the beadle hat he wears. This is a vet typical way of Dickens to write minor characters (Miller, 1987, p. ...