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Too Much Ambition In Macbeth

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Everyone wants to be famous, be in charge, be powerful. It is human to reach for more power or authority and that ambition tends to clouds people’s judgement and block who they truly are inside so that they can get what they want. Throughout the play Macbeth, it is evident that ambition will take over a person of power and make them commit evil without considering the consequences because it corrupts the mind of those it consumes.
The destructive actions of a person in power with too much ambition are noted in the first two acts of Macbeth. Starting the play off, in act 1, Lady Macbeth immediately started scheming to get her and Macbeth into the position of king and queen after Macbeth was made Thane of Cawdor. “Come, you spirits that tend

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