Lady Macbeth's Ambition

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

Women are known to love and care for their husband, but Lady Macbeth was the complete opposite and as well as, being equally responsible for her husband’s downfall. As a result, she overran Macbeth, played a part in killing the King, and in the end went insane from committing the act.

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.

Macbeth is confused as he is arguing with himself on what he should do. He states reasons not to kill Duncan, because Macbeth is his noble kinsmen and the act would bring dishonor. However, he also states reason why he should kill him, because Macbeth will then become king and fulfill the witches ' fortune. Lady Macbeth, who appears in the beginning as the driving force for the murder of King Duncan, also develops internal conflict. At first, Lady Macbeth seems to be a woman of extreme confidence and will. But, as situations become more and more unstable in the play, guilt develops inside her. For instance, she exclaims; "Wash your hands. Put on your nightgown. / Look not so pale. I tell you again, Banquo 's / Burried; he cannot come out on 's grave" (Shakespeare V, ii, 65-67). Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and frets about her evil wrongdoings because she is extremely guilty of her influence on Macbeth to commit the murder. Lady Macbeth reacts emotionally and dwells on her actions as guilt eats at her soul.

In play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most dominant and frightening female characters, known for her ambitious nature. As Macbeth’s wife, her role is significant in his rise and fall from royalty. During Shakespearean times, women were regarded as weak insignificant beings that were there to give birth and look beautiful. They were not thought to be as intelligent or equal to men. Though in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is the highest influence in Macbeth’s life. Her role was so large; in fact, that she uses her position to gain power, stay strong enough to support her unstable Lord, and fails miserably while their

Lady Macbeth’s strength of will persists through the murder of King Duncan as it is she who tries to calm Macbeth after committing the crime by declaring confidently that, “a little water clears us of this deed,” (2.2.67). Afterward, however, Lady Macbeth’s strong and ambitious character begins to deteriorate into madness. Her first sign of weakness occurred when she confessed that she could not have killed the king, revealing a natural woman’s feelings, “had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2.13-14). Just as ambition has affected her before more so then Macbeth before the crime, the guilt plagues her now more effectively afterward as she desperately tried to wash away the invisible blood from her sin, “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,” (5.1.48-49). Lady Macbeth’s

Lady Macbeth has the power over her husband to persuade him into doing anything she requests. She manipulates Macbeth with incredible efficiency by overruling all of his thoughts and changing his perspective on the present. Even though the many tasks that need to be completed are difficult to understand why they need to be done, Lady Macbeth will always convince Macbeth to do it. Her husband often tells her that she has a “masculine soul” which is obvious due to her murderous and envious actions. When the time came to kill king Duncan, Macbeth believes that his wife has gone insane and tells her that the crime they were about to commit was a horrible idea. As a result of his questioning, Lady Macbeth says that executing the crime will show his loyalty to her. On the night of the assassination Lady Macbeth watched the guards of the castle become drunk and unaware of what was going on. Lady Macbeth sent her husband into the castle to kill King Duncan. The married couple fled the scene leaving the guards covered in the evidence. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are stained with the blood of their victims and the feeling of guilt in their stomach.

Throughout the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has moments where her avarice to become Queen of Scotland took over her mind and made her lose control of herself. The greed led Lady Macbeth into developing issues in her marriage, sleeping, and sanity. Because of her belief in special powers, paranoid thoughts, and feelings of unreality, it is clear that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

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.

Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. In Williams Shakespeare 's Macbeth the characters Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have a strong desire to ascend the throne and they are determined to do whatever it takes in order to achieve this goal, including deceiving and killing those they are closest to. The zeal of ambition predominately persuades both characters actions in Macbeth. Lady Macbeth portrays how the forces of ambition strike her to instil a powerful drive in her husband, also how she demonstrates an overweening pride and lack of morals in order to reach a goal and lastly how ambition leads Macbeth to betray those cares about most.

In the famous Shakespeare play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and her husband planned out the murder of Duncan, the King of Scotland, so that they would be the king and queen. She desired power and was very manipulative of her husband in order to fulfill her needs. Lady Macbeth is a strong-willed, ambitious, and ruthless character. Lady Macbeth’s ambition and willpower drove her to work with her husband to kill the king of Scotland. She knew she would not be able to kill the king on her own and she needed to push Macbeth to do the dirty work: “We fail? /

She came up with the plan for the murder but yet this still is not her fault. Macbeth could have turned the plan down and said he would not do it. He felt guilty before the murder and he didn’t tell Lady Macbeth no. She was calling him things that were not manly. He decided to take that bate and go on with the plan.

In the play, Macbeth written by, William Shakespeare in the 17th century, It is clear that there were many attributions leading to Macbeth’s downfall. Lady Macbeth is the true conspirator in the leading of Macbeth’s downfall. Lady Macbeth is often seen as a fair lady, but she isn’t as innocent as she seems. From the beginning of the play to the end, it is evident that Lady Macbeth had a large role in bringing Macbeth down. Even though she is believed to be a “fair lady” and an proper woman by the human eye, her character is a lot worse than Macbeth’s is thought out to be.

The play ‘Macbeth’ established by William Shakespeare, exhibits the act of ambition and the danger that also accompanies it. Shakespeare specifically utilises this through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and how ambition accounts for a majority of the mishaps that occur throughout the course of the play. During the beginning acts of the play, Macbeth is declared as a good-willed man who only inflicts righteousness upon others. However, as soon as the possibility of utmost power is said to be crowned in his name, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are filled with only deceit in order to claim success. Whilst the couple looks as though they are in control of their ambition and their actions, danger is however always seeping through. It does

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there is no doubt that lady Macbeth takes some blame for her husband’s actions throughout the play. Lady Macbeth is also partially responsible for the destruction of her husband’s morals. Lady Macbeth is not a monster without compassion, but is sly and cunning when she is able to convince her husband to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth’s ability to influence her husband, leads the audience to believe that she is the main cause of Macbeth’s downfall. The audience is also lead to believe that lady Macbeth is responsible because she planed the murder of Duncan with no help. “Lady Macbeth's principal importance lies in her ability to influence her husband early in the play when she urges him to murder the king.” (Boyce, Charles.) Although Macbeth really thought hard about killing Duncan he wouldn’t have been able to do unless Lady Macbeth persuaded him to. Even though on the surface it