Ambition can come in many forms, both good and evil, good and bad. It can lead a determined person to victory, but it can also lead someone to do horrible things when they are pushed to do so. You may never have had a dark thought before, but then someone could easily mention a speculation, and a twisted thought will rush into your mind like a tidal wave. The thought will then haunt your mind like the damage that was left behind from the influx. Ambition will flood into you like a disease and plague your mind with vile and foul thoughts. The ambition will beleaguer every move you make, and every word you speak, yet you cannot wash off the aspiration as you can wash the filth of the blood from the deed that has been done off of your hands. As a method of defining character and evolving the story, William Shakespeare uses ambition to trigger downfall and a trigger of deaths in the cadaverous play Macbeth. So, was …show more content…
The witches take no part in persuading him to murder anyone, it was purely Lady Macbeth and himself. Before he murdered Duncan, he realized that it was his choice and no one else's to make. “I have no spur/ to prick the sides of my intent, /but only vaulting ambition/which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other.” (I.vii.25-26) this line is Macbeth saying that the only thing driving him to murder someone is ambition, and he does not mention the witches at all in his choice. After he murders Duncan, he starts thinking about not only his prophecies, but Banquo’s prophecies. He believes that since all of his prophecies came true, that Banquo’s will to, and he does not want that to come true. “To be thus is nothing,But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep,/and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be feared.”(III.i.50-54). This proves that Macbeth is afraid of Banquo and what he