Lady Macbeth's Ambition

Within Macbeth, there are numerous representations of human values and conflicts, including duty vs. desire, the effects of a guilty conscience on the human journey and the differences between genders, and the superiority of men within the play, and the modern era. The value foregrounded throughout this text is the representations of ambition within the play Macbeth, and we will be focusing on the protagonist of the story, ironically named Macbeth.

The Macbeth's have a very unsteady relationship and from the beginning it is known that Lady Macbeth is the one who plays out the dominant role in their marriage. She is ambitious and power hungry and won't let anyone or anything get in the way of her pertaining the throne. Lady Macbeth is ambitious in her doings and she is more driven by her determination than Macbeth. Right after reading the letter she received from Macbeth, she realizes that he has power and ambition but lacks the will to seek it through. Luckily, Lady Macbeth quickly turns to murder and realizes although Macbeth is a coward, she holds enough ambition and strength for the both of them, "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promised ; yet do I fear thy nature, /

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

There are many different themes displayed in Shakespeare's famous play Macbeth. Many of these themes play with nature, the supernatural, and fate. From ghosts to horses eating each other the play uses symbolism, language, and characters to portray these themes. During the play the audience learns of several themes such as ambition, guilt, fate versus free will, nature versus the unnatural, and how things are not always as they seem.

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.

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

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.

It is human nature to desire more power, but the the path you take to achieve it will ultimately lead to your success or your downfall. This is outlined clearly through the character Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is originally desperate for power in whatever form she can get it. Consequently, to receive what she wants she results in using the influence she has to perform violent actions. To her own demise this results in madness and eventually death. Therefore in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth's ambitious desire for power and control leads to the manipulation of others to perform desires she is not capable of, which ultimately results in violence and cruelty leaving a burden on her conscience

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 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 fulfill 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. Shakespeare uses different types of language features in the text.

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.

Shakespeare's Macbeth speaks of Ambition and Lust for Power throughout the course of the play, as both main characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are overwhelmed by it and fall victim to its darkest depths. Lady Macbeth's famous quote in Act 1 "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here" demonstrates the vast extremes that Lady Macbeth is willing to go in order to achieve her ambitions. Her soliloquy gives us the first insight into Lady Macbeth's character, her desires and her strength as she calls to the spirits of evil to strip her of her womanly kindness. "On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap / For in my way it lies" presented to us via Macbeth's aside in Act 1 awards us with our first piece of concrete evidence

Macbeth: Ambition and Destiny The new version of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” directed by Justin Kurzel was quite a beautiful and powerful representation of the narrative. Despite the different illustrations of the witches and the addition of one more child witch that do not exactly match the contents of the play, Macbeth and his wife brilliantly convey the struggles, motivations and bewilderment they experience throughout the play. One of the most fascinating scenes in the movie is the final fight of Macbeth and his wish to give up his life. Realizing the misery of his actions and at the same time believing in his immortality and supremacy leads to the culmination of his life.

When Lady Macbeth reads the letter that her husband sent to her, she feels the excitement and joy to find out that her husband has the chance to become king. Lady Macbeth always had the desire to kill King Duncan but there was never an opportunity, but now here is the chance. “Yet do I fear thy nature;/ it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness” (1.5.16-17). Lady Macbeth will sure enough convince her husband into doing anything she pleases. Although Lady Macbeth has desire, her husband has ambition, but not the guts, he does not want to kill the King but he want the power to rule. The struggling of Macbeth trying to process the murder, is what his wife feared, but this does not affect her plan. “That I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ and chastise with the valor of my tongue”(1.5.29-30). Lady Macbeth speaks with her husband pushing him towards killing King Duncan, she advises him to act more evil. Lady Macbeth shows that she more of the man in the relationship, she act evil and is less of a woman because she ordering her husband to kill so that they could become king and queen versus him planning and doing by himself.

In shashere school life he was a pretty ambitious child. He wrote stories and poems about the different people in life. Altouggh ambition can make people reach their goeals it can also destry peoples on the way to their goal. In the schottish play that William shashere wrote it showed that ambition can be corrupted because Macbeth and lady Macbeth would do anything to be king and queen. Especially if it means that they have do anything to get to it.