Is There Too Much Ambition In Macbeth

Ambition is often the driving force in one’s life. It can have an extremely dominant impact on not only yourself, but also many people in your surroundings. You have the ability to control if the outcomes either have a lasting negative or positive effect. When a goal requires determination and hard work to complete, personal morals often take a back seat to the aspiration of accomplishing the goal. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, it is clear that like many other great leaders, Macbeth exemplifies the necessary leadership virtue of ambition. Macbeth’s ambition does not just drive him to do great things. It in fact controls him. The playwright explores the idea of how an individual’s ambition can cause them to deceive others, make irrational

Ambition is what motivates people to achieve a certain thing in their life. However, many fail if their ambition is too big and unreasonable. This is definitely the case for Macbeth in the William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Macbeth's ambitious causes him to disregard his loyalty to Duncan. Moreover, Macbeths desires lead him to be immoral, going to extremes in order to achieve success. Ultimately, Macbeths deep aspirations for power demonstrates being over ambitious will end in disaster. Therefore, in the play Macbeth, Macbeths ambition leads him to corrupt his morality, resulting in his downfall

     In Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of Macbeth the main character Macbeth is driven from his status as a well respected warrior and lord of not one, but two Scottish regions to a dishonest, unloyal murderer. Macbeth gets caught in a web of lies and vile acts of murder in which he brings about his own demise. His criminal actions lead up to his tragic ending of life. ‘ They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bearlike I must fight the course.’ His great ambition and gullibility of the witches predictions are two of the biggest factors of his downfall;however, Lady Macbeth was probably the biggest influence in the whole tragedy.

The witches tell banquo and macbeth but basically Macbeth that he can be king and show him how nice it would be to be king, they tell them they can

The tragic downfall of Macbeth can be contributed to several key factors. Macbeth’s downfall can be attributed to his blind ambition, the influence of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s own insecurities and misgivings. Blind ambition combined with immoral goals, with Lady Macbeth’s influence and Macbeth’s personal doubts all lead to his inevitable downfall.

If Macbeth truly did not want to commit evil, he could have refused his lady’s arrangements. Instead, Macbeth accepts the plans and goes further by asking Lady Macbeth to “mock the time with fairest show”. Macbeth understood that killing Duncan was an immoral act but still persevered and therefore the one ultimately to blame for his death.

From the beginning, Macbeth chose to follow the witches instead of letting things just naturally occur. Banquo serves to show how the predictions were not just destiny and did not control his life. Even when he sees that many are becoming true, he states, "may they (witches) not be my oracles"(Act III, sc.i, 9). He is stating that he will just let events occur and not try to fulfill the prophecies. Macbeth also had this same choice. If he had taken the same approach as Banquo, a claim could be made that it was destiny that Macbeth would murder Duncan. However, Macbeth lived on account of the prophecies, not the reverse.

Macbeth’s ambition is powered by the sisters. Through the sisters he learns that he is to be king, he does not know how he is going to become king however. Ambition is the key to his downfall. Before he had this ambition he said that he would never have dreamed of killing the king to become king. The ambition drove him to kill the king, so that he could become then king.

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare recounts Macbeth's meteoric rise as a soldier and promising future leader whose megalomaniacal ambition led to his tragic downfall. In addition to Macbeth's ambitions, which initially enable him to be strong leader and soldier, he is influenced heavily by his wife, Lady Macbeth, and the three witches that prophesize his ascent to the throne, as well as warn him of his eventual demise. It can be argued that it is Macbeth's ambition that allows him to succeed in his endeavors, however the goals to which he is working toward influence the results of his hard work. Macbeth's ambitions help him to become a war hero, and as his goals change, his ambitions drive him to become a tyrannical villain.

Macbeth's over-zealousness for political power led him to the murder of Duncan, the assassination of Banquo, and finally the slaughter of MacDuff's family.  These events spur the revolution that eventually costs Macbeth his crown and his life, not to mention the wife he loses along the way.

After Macbeth said that he sent three murders to kill Banquo. He did this because he thought that Banquo would be a potential problem for him when he would have the throne. Macbeth does not want to Banquo to interfere by exposing the witches’ prediction about him being king to the public. This is what drove him to commit the murder of Banquo. In conclusion, this scene illustrates that Macbeth’s ambition would make him do anything to get the throne.

He wasn’t the one that had the determination to kill Duncan. He was a coward when it came to killing Duncan because he was too scared and he kept making excuses. Also, Lady Macbeth is responsible for Macbeth’s actions later on in the play. She was the one that led to him feeling comfortable about murdering people because she told him to not show anything that will give him away. She tells him not to think about anything that happened or else he will go crazy.

Lady Macbeth? The driving force behind Macbeth’s downfall? Certainly not. Macbeth was completely and solely responsible for all the acts of great evil which were to lead to his downfall, and to even suggest the blame can be shifted on his wife is ludicrous.

Everyone wants to be famous, be in charge, be powerful. It is human to reach for more power or authority and that ambition tends to clouds people’s judgement and block who they truly are inside so that they can get what they want. Throughout the play Macbeth, it is evident that ambition will take over a person of power and make them commit evil without considering the consequences because it corrupts the mind of those it consumes. The destructive actions of a person in power with too much ambition are noted in the first two acts of Macbeth.

I believe that Macbeth’s downfall is a result of his own ambition and greed. He always wanted more and more and was never pleased with what he had. His judgement was clouded by his thirst for more. He never really felt secure so he took drastic measures to ensure he would be safe but they only made him feel worse. When the Witches told him the prophecies that sparked something in him. He murders his own king and sent murderers to kill his best friend. He was never truly satisfied and he never got to enjoy the reign as king. He was always paranoid and alert. He tried too hard to control his destiny but maybe if he had just let it control itself he would have had a better outcome. Ultimately Macbeth was his own worst enemy and the biggest factor