“Sometimes to stay alive, you gotta kill your mind,” are lyrics of the popular, upcoming band, Twenty One Pilots. Twenty One Pilots is a band formed by Tyler Joseph and Joshua Dun. When looking at Macbeth and Twenty One Pilots, one may not notice any similar traits considering one is a play written in 1606, and the other is a band formed in 2009. Aside from these differences, Macbeth and Twenty One Pilots share similar messages involving manipulation, the need for power, and death.
Macbeth and Twenty One Pilots share a common characteristic of manipulation. After Lady Macbeth hears about the prophecy Macbeth received, she knows that it has to come true. When plotting the murder of Duncan, Macbeth states that he is unsure if he can execute…show more content… Duncan and his son, Malcolm, are in the way of Macbeth gaining power, so Lady Macbeth thinks of a way to expunge the obstacle. Although the power is strictly for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth craves to “Make thick [her] blood. / ... / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake [her] fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it!” (1.5.33-37). Like Macbeth, Twenty One Pilots contains a message of wishing to have power. In another song of Joseph’s, he sings, “I wanna be a lot of things; so much pent up inside of me. I wanna be strong, too long I've sat here undecidedly planning strategy” (Joseph...No Phun Intended), which suggests that Joseph wishes to be powerful and have more say in his life. Considering Joseph’s mental state at the time, one can assume that he is indirectly stating that he hopes to become a happier person, and have complete control over his life and emotions. Although the power he is talking about is different than Lady Macbeth’s, both are looking to further their influence, and wish to be more powerful. Nevertheless, Joseph and Lady Macbeth’s intentions are both to attain power in any way…show more content… Death plays a major role in the plot of the Macbeth, considering it is a tragedy of Shakespeare. Although there are a handful of deaths within the first few scenes, a death that particularly stands out is the suicide of Lady Macbeth. “To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, / come, come, come. Give me your hand. What’s / done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed!” (5.1.45-47), are Lady Macbeth’s last words. Although things are in her favor, the guilt due to her previous actions haunts her, and she cannot bear to live with it. Her death is significant to the plot of Macbeth because she has a major downfall; considering she is the most confident in the beginning. Lady Macbeth’s death is similar to the one in a song of Twenty One Pilots. The man in the song is not confident with who he is, and “He thinks that faith might be dead / nothing kills a man faster than his own head” (Joseph...Twenty One Pilots). His thoughts are haunting him; similar to what is happening to Lady Macbeth. Also, “My own two hands will start bleeding and then they will lower me into, to a hole in the ground” (Joseph...No Phun Intended) shares the same idea; the hole being a grave. Both, Lady Macbeth and Joseph, lose faith and have nowhere to turn to fix their problems, so they believe the best option is to kill themselves.
Aside from the fact that Macbeth and Twenty One Pilots are completely different in form, they share
