Macbeth #2

Now a day peer pressure was also present in the days of Shakespeare. In Macbeth, Shakespeare writes about how Macbeth's wife pressures him into something that he didn't necessarily want to do. Lady Macbeth goaded him on with discouraging words that were definite insults to his dignity and his ego. She was questioning his manliness in a way.

People now still pressure someone else into doing something that they don't want to do. Though, it is also possible to encourage a person with peer pressure. Negative peer pressure seems to be more occurring than positive peer pressure. Positive peer pressure is more encouraging and helpful, whereas negative peer pressure seems more forceful in a way or can be coinciding with black mail.

Some people will say that if you don't do something that they will tell people things that aren't true about you just for not doing whatever it was that they wanted you to do. To protect your reputation and to save yourself from insults you end up doing it.

I have experienced negative and positive peer pressure, I didn't give into the negative peer pressure and I will admit I paid greatly for it the next week at school but in the end my conscience was clear. Negative peer pressure is hard to avoid, it really is a hard decision to make. I can definitely see why people have given into it.

My experience with positive peer pressure was a relief. I was having a problem making a huge decision in my life, one that will change my life for the better. I felt that I wasn't going to be able to handle the pressure of the decision so I decided to talk to one of my teachers. I needed the outsiders opinion on what to do and she made me feel so much better about what I was deciding to do with life and really made me want to continue with the decision that I was struggling with.

Peer pressure can be seen in so many different situations, small or big. It's not easy to deal with even if it is positive, that's why the word "pressure" is in the phrase. It's up to you to make the decision in the end and in Macbeth's situation he made his decision it just wasn't the right one. Macbeth just wanted his wife to believe that he was man and that he could get what he wanted.