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Macbeth Ambition And Power

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Shakespeare’s exploration of the values and depiction of the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is an important theme in the world of political ambition and power struggle. Macbeth certainly has ambition but at first he is indecisive about trying to translate this ambition into reality. But by using the key words "gender" and "power", there is only one character to which all three are applicable and that is Lady Macbeth. She is in all ways but one the skilled hostess. There was an oblique power to that position, which she clearly subverts when she undertakes the murder of a guest in her own home. Lady Macbeth seizes upon this as a sign of his husband’s fundamental weakness which is most unbecoming in a man. She taunts his lack of

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