Monday, November 24, 2014

In what way might Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sense a betrayal from another country (against Libya), in the same way that Macbeth feels that he and...

Colonel Gaddafi accused leaders of other parts of the
world of turning on him in an unethical manner. Specifically, the recently deposed
leader in February of 2011, accused western powers of betraying
him.


David Cameron, the British prime minister's name came
up in an interview at that time: Gaddafi accused him of having no morals; and, that
Cameron misrepresented Gaddafi's financial position in Britain when he said he was
freezing Gaddafi's English assets, as the Libya leader stated he had
no money in any bank in
England.


Similar to the situation in
Shakespeare's Macbeth, when Malcolm flees Scotland, fearful that he
will be killed by whoever also murdered his father, he is welcomed by England's King,
Edward the Confessor. He is promised support, including troops, to take Scotland away
from Macbeth.


Macbeth accuses Malcolm of running to England
and betraying him by spreading rumors regarding how Duncan died (by blaming Macbeth),
while Macbeth insists that his "bloody cousins" (Malcolm and
Donalbain) are to blame for their father's death. Macbeth would see King Edward as the
foreign leader betraying him, much the way Gaddafi sees David Cameron as a traitor to
Libya as well.

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