Theme Of Ambition In Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is a two-faced megalomaniac who is responsible for the murder of King Duncan in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. After Macbeth tells her about their probable future of royalty foretold by a group of old witches, she immediately creates a plan to kill the king of Scotland in order to gain control of the throne. She, however, puts this murderous crime upon the shoulders of her husband Macbeth to do the dirty work. In the play, one can see how Lady Macbeth is more responsible for the murder of King Duncan because of her abilities to easily manipulate people into doing what she wants.

Lady Macbeth is filled evil schemes, and knows how to achieve her goal of getting her husband into the kingly position. Lady Macbeth is very convincing in her ideas, and does not leave a lot of space to think otherwise. Macbeth is not left much choice but to conform himself to his wife’s mischievous strategy to get him to become king. He is very loyal, and wants to remain so to his king even knowing he would become king if Duncan, the present king, were to die. Lady Macbeth, however, has other plans for Macbeth, and she soon has him convinced to commit an act which will change their lives forever. Macbeth and his wife are truly opposite people, as Macbeth is laid back and easy going, while Lady Macbeth wants everything planned out and will go onward with plans no matter who they affect. She truly does make Macbeth a more interesting person through her evil schemes.

The writer, Shakespeare, illustrates to the audience that the consequences do not just affect the person who have the ambitions, but it also affects the people around them. He does this by expressing the ambition through the characters of Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are shown to be ambitious and their ambition feeds off of each other. Macbeth is initially shown to the audience as a brave and selfless soldier who is loyal to his king till the day he dies. But, once Macbeth hears the prophecy of the three witches’, (that he will become the King of Scotland), Macbeth changes. He develops a deep, dark and horrible ambition of ruthlessly murdering the king and taking his place. Macbeth then writes to Lady Macbeth telling her of his ambitions. This leads to Lady Macbeth provoking Macbeth’s ambitions instead of telling him to forget about it. As she provokes Macbeth the audience can clearly see that this woman is bad news. “Was the hope drunk?Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?... and wakes it now, to look so green and pale which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

Macbeth’s ambitious ways takes over his whole inner self throughout his time of first wanting to be king. Macbeth was thought to be a great leader and war hero before he was king. Macbeth was hatched an idea by three suspicious witches in whom he had never come in contact with before. They told him that he would one day become King of Scotland. After the witches disappeared, he got to think a lot about what they told him and pondered the words they spoke. Macbeth sends a letter to his wife about his feelings of what he had heard. When Macbeth returned back to his castle his wife wanted to lead him down a dark path and feed his ambition. Macbeth decides he wants to go after the crown after consulting his wife. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on th'other...." (Act I, scene vii) This shows that Macbeth’s only reason to kill Duncan is for his ambition. Macbeth ends up killing Duncan. The way Macbeth killed Duncan made it a great crime scene. Macbeth still

Lady Macbeth is just as power hungry as her husband, if not more. Masculinity is extremely fragile and has been since the beginning of time. If a man does not live up to his prominent female’s influence, he is made out to be less of a man. Lady Macbeth uses this tactic to ensure the deed is done to her liking. Some historians place sole blame upon Lady Macbeth for the murder of Duncan. She saw an opportunity in the letter from Macbeth regarding the prophecy and she formulated a plan in order to attain the highest possible status for herself.

In the play Macbeth, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth show moments of confidence and great doubt while planning and executing their plans to become powerful rulers. Starting off the play, Lady Macbeth is the fiercer of the two characters. She recognizes what she wants and will do whatever is necessary to make that happen, even if it means dealing with her more cowardly partner in crime, Macbeth. Macbeth shows similarities to Lady Macbeth regarding ambition, but that's about where their likeness ends. Macbeth, though not without devious plans, has too much heart and doubts himself too much to desire to follow through with those plans. Over time, a switch in characters occurs as the deaths the team causes begin to take its toll on the both of them. With very different reactions to the gore they inflict, Macbeth can be seen growing into a calloused, cold-hearted individual who cares little about others and life itself. On the other hand, with each murder, Lady Macbeth can be seen breaking down more and more. The evil she is a part of breaks her spirit, and she is impacted and deeply haunted by the deaths in her life.

Throughout the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the reasoning of the central characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, is completely subverted by their insatiable ambition.  At first, Macbeth is reasonable enough to keep his ambition under control.  However, his ambition gradually becomes stronger and eventually overpowers Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is controlled by ambition from the very beginning.  After the decision is made to kill Duncan, all rational thought is abandoned.  Once the murder is planned, there is no serious questioning of the misleading predictions of the three witches.  Macbeth even goes as far as to ask for the witches’ advice a second time - this second time would lead to

In William Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, Macbeth, the selfish ambition of protagonists Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, result in both being seen as the driving force of the play. Though it may seem that Macbeth’s ambition is greater than his wife’s since he had committed murder, Lady Macbeth encouraged her husband to perform the wicked acts by challenging his manhood, and as a result, fulfilling her greedy desires. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were blinded by their selfish ambition and were eager to own the ultimate titles of King and Queen of Scotland.

One theme in Macbeth is ambition. We see all different types of ambition through out the story. The first instance is when Macbeth sends a letter to his wife tell her what the weird sisters said. He told Lady Macbeth that they said he would become king after becoming Thane of Cowdar. He also told him wife that he would to anything to make sure that comes true. After Lady Macbeth read this she wanted to make sure her husband would become king. She has a few concerns though, "To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it" (I/5/17-19). She does not know if Macbeth will be able to go through with their plan. She talks him into killing Duncan by telling him that he will not

The play Macbeth by William Shakespeare is overflowing in evil and greed. Lady Macbeth is the overriding source of evil in the play. She tries to convenience Macbeth to kill Duncan, but in reality she wants to kill him herself. She does does not want the prophecy to come true that states Duncan’s heirs will rule the throne. She desires to be Queen. As the character of Lady Macbeth progresses, she moves from evil and greed to showing some weaknesses and slight insanity. Lady Macbeth is bothered by her desire to become a queen and her willingness to sacrifice everything.

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? /

In Shakespeare’s play, MacBeth, Lady MacBeth leads MacBeth to his demise by manipulating his love for her, for her own selfish gain. MacBeth is willing to do anything for the approval and love of his wife. She uses this to encourage MacBeth to commit acts of deceit and murder. Lady MacBeth thirsts for power and title and will use her husband to get it. The paramount instance of Lady’s manipulation is when she convinces MacBeth to murder King Duncan in cold blood. Lady MacBeth is established as an ambitious and selfish character who will do anything to get ahead. She uses her husband’s passion against him. Lady Macbeth goats MacBeth to anger with this quote, "To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire.” (Act 1 Scene 7

Lady Macbeth is one of the most dominant characters in the play Macbeth because of her ambitious, manipulative and deceitful nature. Lady Macbeth’s ambition is her most consuming trait. It is expressed in the quote “Come, you spirits/ that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here/and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull/of direst cruelty”(I.v.l.39-42). This famous quote said by Lady Macbeth is about how she wishes to be more like a man so she can kill Duncan herself, which proves that she is willing to take any measures possible to earn success for her and her her husband Macbeth. Additionally, Lady Macbeth is a manipulative character . Her controlling nature is exhibited when she manipulates her husband into killing the king, by saying

Throughout the play Macbeth, Shakespeare expresses unbridled ambition within the pushy, opinionated and malicious, Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is an evil woman who knows how to persuade people (specifically her husband) into doing sinful things. Although her rampantly tempered character seemed invincible, it leads her into a major downfall that even she couldn’t recover from. In this play, Lady Macbeth coaxes her husband, Macbeth, to murder the beloved King Duncan so that he could become the new King of Scotland.