Lady Macbeth's Ambition

From the act I, the witches predict Macbeth prophecy about he will become a king. The prophecy have marked on Macbeth’s and Lady macbeth’s behavior, thought, and emotions. The prophecy leads both of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to idea of greatness and powerful. Lady Macbeth thought that if she became a queen, she would have gotten attention, power, respect, and love. She never realizes that killing Duncan would ruin her life. On the other hand, Macbeth still struggle against his ambition and he is more profound about the consequences than Lady Macbeth, from the example event that he thinks that Duncan is a good king and he doesn’t deserve being murdered. But he still gives in to his ambitions. Furthermore, the prophecy leads them

Lady Macbeth’s and Macbeth’s ambition for power is driven by greed. However, Macbeth is more ambitious as he has a stronger desire to be king. Macbeth starts to have a strong desire to be king due to the prophecies given to him by the witches. Macbeth’s need to become king leads him to even consider murder.

Ambition pushed Macbeth to do anything necessary to become king. When witches told Macbeth he will be the Thane of Cawdor, and king of Scotland eventually, Macbeth did not take that as a joke, he kept asking witches, and wanted witch to explain to him precisely. When Ross brought the news that King Duncan gave the “Thane of Cawdor” title to Macbeth, Macbeth did not take that as a coincident, he immediately mailed a letter to his wife, lady Macbeth; at this point, ambition made him put his dream in action. When Duncan stayed at Macbeth’s castle, he did not take that as a simple visit, instead he saw that as a chance to achieve his dream. His loyalty made him afraid, his honesty kept disturbing him, he was about to pull back from his murder plan, however, ambition gave him the courage to kill his king no matter what.

With these prophecies, Macbeth’s ambition starts with his ambition to become king. Macbeth even says “ My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, and nothing is but what is not “(Act 1 Scene 3 Lines 52-55). In this line, Macbeth first thoughts of murder are shown. His ambition to murder the king is being stated. At first, he rejects the prophecies But after he hears that he became Thane of Cawdor he believed in the prophecies.

He goes slightly insane because he hallucinated a dagger before killing Duncan, and because he had just killed The King. At this point in the story, he is no longer morally aware of himself and acts without second thought; he ends up killing anyone who he thinks may suspect him for the murder. He suspects Banquo of knowing his actions and kills him, but when Macbeth holds a banquet to celebrate him being king, he sees Banquo’s ghost, and becomes absolutely mental. He is no longer morally aware of himself because he wouldn’t have killed Duncan to become king, or kill Banquo just because he suspected him of knowing his crimes if he was truly aware of his actions. The three witches and Lady Macbeth played a key role into influencing Macbeth to achieve his goal of being king, through illegitimate actions. The ambitions of achieving a goal like becoming king can sometimes turn into a primary thought instead of keeping yourself morally aware.

In Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy, Macbeth, the corrupting world of uncontrolled ambition and its toll on a person are explored through the main character’s eyes. Ambition- a vital part of human nature that sparks self-betterment and progression- can be beneficial, however, an excess can lead to destruction. Macbeth was leading a noble life until the witches prophesized the potential of his future success, which was the beginning of his downfall. Everyone has desires, but when a seed of ambition is planted in a persons’ mind, it can only be amplified. Although this seed was set by the witches, Lady Macbeth is the one who pushed and manipulated his ambition. Macbeth’s interactions with Lady Macbeth are the major factors that influenced Macbeth

She comes up with a plot to kill the current King of Scotland, King Duncan, which was her answer to make the prophecies happen as soon as possible. Lady Macbeth serves as the person who pushes Macbeth into committing murder in the attempt of controlling fate. Lady Macbeth serves as one of the main catalysts for the king’s death, if not the main catalyst. Shakespeare creates Lady Macbeth, an intelligent and ambitious character, who serves as part of a clear image of human involvement on fate and the battle of fate vs free will. This shows that through the use of tactics like effeminizing her husband and harsh demands, Lady Macbeth welcomes the prophecies; leading her to become the main force behind her husband committing murder to become

In William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, both Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are driven by ambition to fulfill their deepest desires. In the seventh scene of Act One, Macbeth was debating whether or not to murder King Duncan. By killing the King, Macbeth would become next in line for the throne and have rule of all of Scotland. Macbeth said aloud to himself, “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other.” (37) In this line, Macbeth is telling himself that the only thing motivating himself is ambition, which makes people rush ahead of themselves toward disaster. The literary device Shakespeare uses in this line is personification. Ambition is a strong desire or

Macbeth in the beginning of the play starts off as a honorable man but after hearing the prophecies he starts to deteriorate his morality. He continuously tries to convince himself that he doesn’t have to do it but obviously fails over and over again. Having no motivation to kill Duncan anymore he says “ I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition,which o’erleaps itself, / And falls on th’other - ” (1.7.25-28) leaving him with only ambition to inspire him to do the murder. Ambition is his energy now which later on makes him kill everyone in his way. In Act 4 Macbeth goes in a killing rampage.

For example, in the second scene of the second act after Macbeth murders King Duncan, Macbeth hallucinates a voice saying “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep—the innocent sleep” As Macbeth has now realized what he has done, he will not be able to rest anymore since he is no longer innocent. Since Macbeth has committed such a horrible crime, he will not be able to sleep well as sleep is only for the innocent. Throughout the rest of the play, Macbeth will constantly remark on his exhaustion and will be unable to rest due to the guilt he feels. Also, in the fourth scene of the third act, Macbeth hallucinates the ghost of Banquo (his best friend) at his banquet after he hires assassins to murder Banquo and his son.

Ambition in Macbeth In the play The Tragedy of Macbeth, the reader can pick up many different types of outward behaviors that the playwright made in his piece of literature; one of them is clearly ambition. The ambition found in the play Macbeth is what led to the tragic events. The reader can immediately infer Macbeth's ambition in the beginning of the play with the witches’ famous quote "all hail, Macbeth, which shalt be king hereafter. This quote being at the beginning of the play instantly gives the reader an inference that ambition is a factor in the play.

In William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, it shows the ambitions of the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have a similar ambition of their own which is to gain power and glory to such a point that they are the king and queen. While the play goes on, both characters go through similar feelings, thoughts, and effects of ambition on each character to complete their plans of gaining such power and glory.

In this instance, I believe the noble, virtuously ambitious Macbeth is entertaining corrupt passions and censurable ambitions; his imagination is yielding to the witches’ prophecy (suggestion) of becoming king and running wild with all of the possibilities this may hold and, more importantly, how this prophecy would come true. His imaginative and “fantastical” murderous thought of Duncan to achieve being king “shakes [his] state of man.” In other words, the idea of killing the king goes against his better judgment and sense of morality (akrasia), and perhaps it worries Macbeth that he would merely entertain an idea such as this based on something (the witches’ prophecy) without evidence (“surmise”). As he ponders the prophecy, the more and more it appears he is at odds with himself (internal war due to phantasma), his morality, and his beliefs, left not knowing what to do. Macbeth’s gradual yield to his passions and censurable ambitions result in another yield to

Not to mention that the theme of ambition initially led Macbeth to his downfall by displaying his eagerness to become king and continuing the crown to his posterity. This can be seen when Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan. This set Macbeth's mentality to go through with it and can be seen when Lady Macbeth says, " are you afraid to act the way you desire? Will you take the crown you want so badly, or will you live

Ambition is a major motif in Macbeth, specifically, Lady Macbeth’s ambition is the driving force of the play. Demonstrably, Lady Macbeth is the one who gives Macbeth idea to kill Duncan, she instigates Macbeth to get something he wants but he afraid to have. After Lady Macbeth read the letter about Macbeth has a significant role and words from three witches. She thinks Macbeth lack of ambition and turpitude.