The "Flip-side" of Power An essay on the conflict of power and safety in Macbeth

Recently I read an article which talks about a German physicist named Werner Heisenberg. He discovered an analogous phenomenon with his uncertainty principle. Studying matter at the atomic level, quantum physics, he realized that the act of measuring affected the object being measured. As a result, one could never accurately determine both position and momentum of an electron with precision. The attempt to reach one of these goals hurts the other, and a similar phenomenon …

…power lead to a decline in comfort. As Lady Macbeth and Macbeth discover, those without power, including the people they murdered find the most comfort. Like trying to measure two factors with precision, trying to reach both goals to a high degree is impossible. At the same time, the two are able to decline together. That's why a balance needs to be found between the human need of security and the dangerous pursuits of power.