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Rasputin Compared to Macbeth

Rasputin is a lot like Macbeth because Macbeth corrupted his power, just like Rasputin did. Macbeth mistreated his subjects by murdering people like Banquo and Macduff's family. Macbeth abused his trust the king put in him as well as murdering the King himself, therefore he abused the power of trust. Macbeth also degenerated the trust of Lady Macbeth and lost the power to love others. There was also an abuse and a loss of love for Lady Macbeth, because the lack of attention from Macbeth. The power that Macbeth had corrupted him, because it made him greedy. This made Macbeth want more power which caused him to abuse the power already had. This caused Macbeth's authority to become corrupt.

Rasputin was very much like Macbeth because Rasputin did care for Alexei but he also is thought to have raped the daughters of Tsar Alexander. The Tsarita did nothing to stop this because she believed whatever Rasputin did was holy. He abused the power of trust, just like Macbeth, that the daughters, servants and the Tsarita had placed in him. Rasputin also corrupted the relationship of love with his wife because he cheated on her with several other woman. Rasputin was also power hungry as Macbeth was and used the power he had to damage the Royal Family. He would drag the name of the Tsarita in the mud and this would bring the people to entrust themselves more towards Rasputin then the Tsarita and her family. This corrupted his authority, just as Macbeth corrupted the power he had. Rasputin manipulated the Tsarita and into doing things that would hinder the prosperity of the kingdom and then blamed the Tsarita to hurt the Royal family once again useing his corrupted power.

Rasputin-Corruption of Power

Rasputin was a wolf in Sheep’s clothing, but the people of Russia, and the royal family would not and could not believe this. Rasputin was the convenient person to take the blame for those who wanted to attack the Tsar's appointments and decisions, but who wouldn't approach Nicholas directly. Still many people got pleasure from seeing Tsarina Alexandra’s named dragged through the mud. Rasputin made things worse by showing off the Royal families gifts, letters and the telephone calls he received from Alexandra asking for his prayers. People believed he had an eerie and/or keen control over the Tsar and his wife. Rasputin enjoyed the celebrity status this reputation gave him. Not everyone had a positive view of Rasputin. "His enemies charged that he was nothing but cynical, and that he used religion to hide his drive for sex, money, and power." There was also general agreement among officials that Rasputin was negatively influencing Alexandra, and in turn affecting the entire country. Rasputin had a sexual relationship with the Czarina and in letters to him she was always calls him 'darling'. Rasputin did not fit in with the Royal Family and he had a very strained relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin is has been described as one of the most outragous people in Russian history. A somewhat literate peasant from Siberia, he arrived in the capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, and by the time a few years had passed by he had become one of the most influential men in the Russian government. Rasputin was also known to have raped a nun.

Rasputin and the Royal Family

Rasputin was a very powerful monk. Tsarita Alexandra of Russia asked Rasputin to try to care for her son who suffered from haemophila. He claimed he used the power of prayer to cure sickness. It did seem to cure Alexei (the Tsarita's son) so the Royal Family believed everything that Rasputin did was holy. He began to work with Alexei in 1905. Rasputin was said to have raped Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova the Royal Governess, but he was not punished because the Tsarita beleived if he did it, it was holy. It is also claimed that he seduced the Tsarita and her daughters. When Tsar Nicholas II went away Rasoutin gained more power over the Tsarita and he became her personnel confidant and advisor. He convinced her to sill the Cabinet with his hand-picked people.

Rasputin-Personal History

Rasputin was born a peasent in a small village called Pokrovskoye, near the Tura River on January 22nd in 1869. He had two siblings that we know of, a younger sister, named Maria and an older brother, named Dimitri. One day when Rasputin and Dimitri were playing near the pond Dimitri fell in and Rasputin jumped in, attempting to save him, but they were both pulled out by a passerby. Dimitri died of Pnemonia. His younger sister, Maria, was epilectic. She has an epilectic attack, fell in the river, and drowned. Rasputin married Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina in 1889. Later, when Rasputin had children, he named two of his children after his dead siblings. He also had a third child and one illegitimate child.

When Rasputin was 18 he spent 3 months in Verkhoturye Monastery which was a important time for the hrowth of his Faith. He also met a Holy man who was said to have influenced his life named Makariy. Rasputin was reported to have seen the Mother of God.

He was murdered in December 29, 1914 by the Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. First they put poisen in his drink and in the food he ate, but this did not seem to affect him. So then Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich shot him, but he still lived so they bound him and threw him in the water through a hole in the ice where he then died.