Ambition In Macbeth

Lady Macbeth starts to sleepwalk and spill the truth to others. Macbeth asks a doctor to help them. Macbeth asks, “Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart” (5.3.74). Macbeth wants the doctor to get rid of the guilt and stress she has and make her unaware of everything that is currently happening in Scotland. Furthermore, Lady Macbeth eventually commits suicide. After hearing the news Macbeth responds with, “She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to

Personal power has the capability to be essential to greatness, and is also able to destroy a person nature. In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, ambition takes a toll on destruction of power that goes unchecked. It is mostly displayed in the one of the main characters, Macbeth. Macbeth is a prime example throughout this play of the horrible effects that ambition can have on someone who lacks a strong character. However, some people feel that Macbeth is an evil person, but he is badly qualified for the consequences of time mentally. Throughout this play ambition is displayed as a dangerous quality and triggers a series of deaths.

It is obvious that Macbeth has ambition, as most people who are in power do. In fact, ambition is often a necessary quality of people in such high standing as Macbeth is. However, Macbeth’s ambition does not just drive him to do great things. It in fact controls him

He also realizes soon after killing Duncan that he made a bad decision and immediately regrets it. This quote also shows how Macbeth did not know what to do from all the information he was taking in about the death of his king. The second quote shows Macbeth talking to his wife about how shocked he is from all that had happened during that day. “Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

He starts the play as a loyal gentleman until he meets the three witches where they foretell that Macbeth will be king (I.iii.48). The prophecy of the three witches kick-starts his impulse to attain that status, which connects to the imagery of witchcraft. However, the three witches are not responsible for Macbeth’s actions but simply Macbeth himself. The prediction drives him into a state of unchecked ambition, one of the biggest themes of the play. He would do anything to achieve kingship even if it involves killing others, which illustrates Macbeth’s greed (I.iii.138-141).

An equally significant concept linking to the difficult circumstance of Macbeth is guilt. Macbeth kills the king effortlessly nevertheless he is traumatised by the guilt of killing his relative. This is shown in Act 2 scene 2 when Macbeth says ‘I’ll go no more I’m afraid to think of what I’ve done’ these words show that Macbeth was filled with guilt from the very moment after he sunk the blade into the king. Another example of guilt displayed by Macbeth is when he says ‘Macbeth does murder sleep’ The personification of this quote shows that Macbeth is in so much psychological anxiety he will no longer sleep this quote is symbolic as by killing Duncan Macbeth has increased his status but has caused harm to his state of mind what he really means is because he has killed Duncan he can no longer rest peacefully he can no longer go to bed and forgot about the hard days trouble he has murdered his peace of mind along with Duncan.

If a character is ambitious, it means they have a strong desire for something, which is often material objects, power, or recognition. When desire is immovable, it quickly blocks out reason and becomes a problem or flaw. Not only is ambition a personal flaw for literary heroes, but it also affects the characters around them. In order to fulfill desires, a hero may eliminate any character that happens to get in their way. This is likely to happen in the case of a character that desires power. A common plot in literature is the story of a character who wants to become some type of powerful figure, such as a king. This is the plot of Macbeth, where the main character Macbeth is driven to murder his king, Duncan, in order to become King of Scotland himself. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other,” (I, vii, 25-28) Macbeth describes his own ambition as he contemplates killing Duncan. Ambition was a major flaw for Macbeth. It is what causes him to

Macbeth is a play that entails the journey of Macbeth as he becomes the King of Scotland but will face many moral dilemmas and challenges along the way. William Macbeth uses symbolism of blood, the invisible dagger, and the witches to illustrate guilt and the evil of the human soul when Macbeth goes against his values and beliefs. In the first place, the blood that is on Macbeth’s hands after killing King Duncan represents his guilt about having just committed the act of murder. Macbeth himself describes how his actions can never be forgiven by himself or God and questions if “all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/Clean from [his] hand?” (Crowther 2.2.61-62). Macbeth describes how even all the water from

Until then does Macbeth murder him unexpectedly. This leads to a major guilty conscience for both of the characters. As the play goes on, Macbeth begins to feel less and less remorse for the murder and decides to kill Banquo to keep his unearned position as king. By the very end when Lady Macbeth dies Macbeth feels no emotion and explains how it was going to happen one day or another, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death”(V.v.20-26). What he's trying to say is the days creep slowly along until the end of time and that life is nothing more than just an

In the final act of Shakespeare’s twenty-ninth production, Macbeth, the audience is on the cusp of witnessing the ultimate duel between a tyrant and the men he has so mightily wronged. However, this epic battle is preceded by a tragedy offstage, the death of Lady Macbeth. At this point in the drama, Macbeth is informed of his loss and he curses time as if it was a man standing before him. He rambles on about how, “-all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (5.5.22-28). In this highly interpretive diatribe,

At this point, Macbeth talks to himself and says that his life is considered “tale” and how it “signifies nothing” (Shakespeare V.v.2). Macbeth has come to an conclusion of how his life does not mean anything to anyone right

Following the murder, Macbeth proclaims, ““Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash the blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas

The Influences of Desire Desire means what people really want to do or to have in deep of their heart, sometimes it doesn’t show on their face. Desire can be people's ambitions, freedom of love, or a strong body. Here is an example for ambition, in Shakespeare’s "Macbeth”, the character Macbeth grows his desire of power after he heard from the three witches that he will be the next king soon. His ambitions, the desire of power influenced him so much that it turned him into an evil person.

This quote shows how as with Macbeth and Neptune’s ocean Lady Macbeth and all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten the rotten smell of blood she can envision on her hand. She reveals feeling guilty and wrong for the act she helped commit when she is caught sleepwalking. This manipulates the reader’s response because Lady Macbeth showed no remorse or feeling when she was pressuring her husband to kill Duncan. This teaches us that in today's society it is bad to keep things bottled up inside of you and not expressing how you feel about something you have

In addition, Aristotle believes themes and type of diction classifies whether or not a play is a tragedy. He states they should includes various themes, speeches that reveal themes and character, and metaphors. (McManus) Macbeth has various themes, such as, excessive ambition leads to one’s downfall, for which they aspire to reach unreachable heights, deception leads to bigger lies and to one’s downfall, and “fair is foul, and foul is fair,” (I, i, 12) meaning there is good and bad in everything. Macbeth perfectly demonstrates how excessive ambition can lead to one’s downfall as it leads to his death.