Lady Macbeth's Ambition

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

In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare we see the character of Lady Macbeth and her relationship with Macbeth as destructive as she supports his bad ambitions to fulfil the witches prophecy as soon as possible. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a brave soldier, but because his ambitions get out of hand, he kills King Duncan so that he can become the King. Ambitions make people try hard to achieve any of their goals and it will make people do the things that they never done before. But ambitions can lead to some bad consequences and it can lead to a person or couple’s downfall. The purpose of the writer is to show how destructive a relationship can be when Lady Macbeth provokes Macbeth, which leads to guilt. Lady Macbeth was a supportive

Timothy Leary once said, "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition" (Peters 175). But is this true in the case of the classic play Macbeth? In Macbeth it seems to be, that Macbeth the protagonist of the play is influence by Lady Macbeth's ambition. Could this be an exception or was Lady Macbeth lying when she ask to be equal to a man so she could commit the murder (1.5.33.45-61). To understand one must look deeply into the plot and many themes of Macbeth. William Shakespeare uses ambition among other things to imply may different ideas. Thus, Macbeth's downfall is a direct cause of Lady Macbeth's goading and ambition.

Lady Macbeth is ambitious but lacks the morals of her husband, so in the result, she uses her ambition to help drive her husbands. Macbeth starts to feel that he needed to kill and to get rid of others

Traits of Lady Macbeth - Her ambition and determination. At the beginning, she has far greater strength of will than her husband. - Her State of Mind - Her Energy - Her Domination For many hundreds of years, people have read or seen Macbeth, and it is not long before the real traits of Lady Macbeth start to become more apparent; we very quickly realise that she is a much stronger, more ruthless and more ambitious than her husband.

Lady Macbeth is able to pressure her husband, Macbeth, into killing in order to gain power for the both of them, she kept him going down the destructive path by belittling the horrendous actions he took, and making them seem trivial. If they were to be be caught both of them would be in trouble, but if successful, they both had much to gain and it was enough power that pushed them to decide to take

The pride and seize power of being a King is just a burden and nothing to Macbeth. It is undeniable that Lady Macbeth had a strong desire on early presence and power-hungry. Although Macbeth was driven through the persuasion of Lady Macbeth; the greed of power and his own ambition is what truly pushes Macbeth to fulfill his desire. The death of Lady Macbeth and the rapid change of his authority showed a strong connection between each other; causing Macbeth to fully understand the meaningless of life, where ones power and influence vanishes when the lifetime is over. This essay examines Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 5 and the contrast between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s ambition in relation to his freewill, it closely examines how he describe his reaction and the nature of life, and finally it focuses on how the death of Lady Macbeth foreshadows the downfall of Macbeth

Dark and ominous, Lady Macbeth plays an interesting role in Shakespeare’s work, Macbeth. Lady Macbeth manipulates the other characters in the play and convinces them to act the way she wants. She also has an extremely dark side that she shows by calling on dark spirits. Although Lady Macbeth seems ruthless, she later realizes the consequences of her actions, and regrets them. The feeling of regret proves that Lady Macbeth possesses qualities in addition to dark and insane.

Macbeth’s ambition develops into a cruel and evil passion after his murder of King Duncan and creates in him a desire to be, the ‘be all and end all’ of Scotland. Prior to murdering the King, Macbeth shows only a slight trend towards evilness. This is trivial compared to Lady Macbeth’s overriding evilness. In plotting to and finally succeeding in convincing Macbeth to kill the King, Lady Macbeth shows a vial evilness. This is first manifest when she appeals to the spirits to,

Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth demonstrates what can happen when one pursues power at the expense of everything else.   The main character, Macbeth begins the play as a strong character that is greatly admired, however as the play progresses, Macbeth's personality and actions become more and more deceitful. Macbeth’s deceit eventually leads to his destruction.

Both characters ambition leads them use each other in order to get what they want in life. Lady Macbeth uses Macbeth by convincing him that he should kill the king. She convinces him by saying, “As we shall make our griefs and clamor roar upon his death?”(Shakespeare 23). This shows that there are not emotions or thoughts in Lady Macbeth’s mind that says that killing that killing the king isn’t the right thing to do. The thought of power overwhelms her mind causing her to urge Macbeth into committing this crime. Not caring if Macbeth is caught or not. Just the urge to have power is the main motivation in her life at this point. When Macbeth uses Lady Macbeth to help him murder the king, Lady Macbeth can’t withstand the aftermath and dies.

Introduction Lady Macbeth is a big character one of the most complex characters within the play. She is a mixture of contradictions she is strong, ambitious, ruthless, weak and manipulative to name a few. In the begging of the play Lady Macbeth is strong, ruthless and ambitious, in Act1 Sc.3. Lady Macbeth's more ambitious urges lead Macbeth to the path of crime.

She is the strong influence that brainwashed Macbeth to murder his lord, his master, King Duncan, with his own bare hands. The audience is led to think that Lady Macbeth is the main culprit as she thinks up all her grand plans and devious schemes. She is, moreover, a sly person, the person behind the scenes and her husband is easily manipulated and is pushed around by her. Just prior to all of this happening, Lady Macbeth was a very loving wife, and she wanted all the best for her husband. However, after Macbeth send the letter containing the witches prophecies, she turns into a monster who is just as ambitious as her husband and wants to do whatever it takes to “help” him get Duncan out of his way. Although, she take it too far, she adds pressure on Macbeth to commit a crime he is unsure of doing. She even goes to the point of calling him a coward, mocking his bravery and masculinity. Lady Macbeth even says in one of her soliloquies that she wants to be released of all her femininity, morals and values so that she can agree and help Macbeth with the deed. It is certain the Lady Macbeth’s ambition is controlling her actions and

However Lady Macbeth has the biggest influence in Macbeth's life. Lady Macbeth's role was very significant so much so, that she uses her name and terrifying nature to gain power. Lady Macbeth tries to stay strong to support Macbeth, all the while their relationship is ripped to pieces. Lady Macbeth is terrifying in every and it is enough to create the perfect terrifying character. Lady Macbeth has the

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragic tale about the title character who has been overcome with the desire for power. The out of ordinary thoughts spoken from the witches bring trouble for Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and the entire kingdom.