Adolph Hitler was not the great mastermind everyone said he was. He merely had a large map of the world and little pieces to represent battalions. He moved those pieces and where he moved them the troops would go. He was rather loony, and those who were under him were either blinded by his own purpose or were forced to or faced death. Those who opposed him were exterminated.

Adolph's way of dealing with those who opposed him is quite similar to Macbeth's way. Simply kill them and that will keep everyone else in line by showing you have no mercy for those so called "traitors". It worked fairly well for Adolph, but worked miserably for Macbeth.

Macbeth's subjects rose against him. There were enough of them to kill him with minimal people being hurt. For Adolph, there were too many people who believed whole hearted in what he said, loved him for what he did, and would go to bed each night thinking what a great leader he was to get rid of those traitors. Perhaps is Macbeth was less quick to kill and thought more about the person and what they could ad to his succession of the throne he would have been a better king for the short time he reigned.

Both Macbeth and Adolph let their greed run ahead of rational thoughts. They both thought by pure force of will power and sometimes force of arms as well, they could win their personal wars and take over what they had their sights on. Both of them misjudged how much the other humans around them could take before they would rebel against them.

At first Macbeth did not seem to want to really kill anyone. He wanted power, but was rather unsure of whether or not to do the awful things required to get that power. His wife comes into the picture and insults his grips on his manhood and tells him if he doesn't take the opportunity given to him he is no man at all. This shows Macbeth's mental weakness for all he seems strong and stoic, he is really impressionable and to some point naïve to what he is doing.

I doubt, if someone could show Adolph Hitler what he did he would not in some way feel remorse. When he is up among his high generals and not seeing what he is actually doing to the people, he would not, and perhaps could not realize that what he is doing is wrong. In his eyes he was creating the perfect race! Who wouldn't want to praise him endlessly for that? Any means he took to get to that perfect race would never be wrong in his eyes. The same though pattern applies when once Macbeth had committed that first murder of Duncan and the two guards. What was to stop him from thinking that he was right, he thought he was a better king the Duncan, so it was his full right as king to kill anyone who had the slightest inkling of opposing him.

When Macbeth ordered the killing of Macduff's family, it shows that not only is he ruthless and cold, that he has none of the pity for anyone else. In the beginning of the play Macbeth displayed a love for his wife, and his country, and Duncan. He enjoyed the company of his friends, and took care to be honorable and polite.

The change he demonstrated when he went from loving, if not bloodthirsty for his enemies, to hard and cruel was within a rather short period. Adolph had nearly no true idea of what he was doing to an extent, while Macbeth relished in his decision and wanted more blood of those who opposed him. To Adolph, there was no other way, all non-Germans (anyone who was not blonde, or of Jewish descent) were to be killed if they resisted to move out of Germany. To him, it was not his fault they were to "stupid" to move when ordered. Macbeth never left the benefit of the doubt open. He killed because when he was not killing, his conscience would catch up with him and begin to eat away at his sanity and clear thinking.

I doubt only really Adolph himself knew if he really felt remorse or not, but there is proof that he knew what he did was wrong as he killed himself as the war was ending. He had a family, a wife and a few children. This disproves that he was completely made of ice. He, like Macbeth, loved his family and in loving them wanted to provide them with a better life by creating, in Adolph's case, a perfect country with perfect people.

Macbeth wanted a country where he could rule so he would be revered for being a great and compassionate king. But in doing so, he became nervous that people would find out in what way he came to have the throne, so he had to kill more. To Macbeth, there was no other way around it. People who were suspicious must be killed, and then he would be safe to rule kindly. Slowly as he believed the rumors died down, he became more kingly, but unfortunately when he could have been a good king he was killed for his past crimes.

Macbeth and Adolph Hitler differ in few places in regards to their history, but are similar in their thought patterns and beliefs. Both Macbeth and Adolph had only room to see their beliefs and to refuse to be more open minded. In the end, they both died for what they did.

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