How Ambitious Are You? Ambition is one of many emotions a human possesses it blinds an individual to all impediment that will not allow them to reach their goal. Here is where this strong desire to obtain something will surpass obstacles to the extent where the individual will commit acts never done before. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the main characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are driven by a strong desire to become king. A prophecy was given to them by three witches and that Macbeth will be declared King of Scotland, which led them to commit a never before heard crime of killing a king. As they were both well driven by ambition, Macbeth was more ambitious than his wife because even though she began the brutal plan that would …show more content…
This play has been said to be the darkest play Shakespeare has written. Shakespeare wrote this book and added the evil that was occuring during his era, “Macbeth is a play about evil which is given dramatic shape by the story of the deterioration in sin of a man who has yielded up his soul to the devil” (Jack 178). His ambition created an evil heart that also came to have an effect on nature as the sky and the weather became violent as the crime scene was taking place. It has been said that when the earth becomes dark and violent it is because something brutal is occurring. When the devil tricked Adam and Eve into eating the apple from the forbidden tree, God was angry and changed the weather to becoming violent as he uncovered their eyes and caused them to feel ashamed. Lady Macbeth being compared to the serpent also got Macbeth into following her plan as he got more deep into the dirt she was not able to take the pressure of the king’s murder. Macbeth’s ambition was great to the extent where even the skies and the air around him eventually also got contaminated by his brutal actions. Akrasia meaning an individual will commit a wrongful action regardless of them knowing how bad their actions may be, they still go forth with their action. Macbeth knew that what he was about to do was not just any crime. He had plenty of things going through his head that caused him to lose control of his mind. In the article Mortal Knowledge: Akrasia in English Renaissance Tragedy by Emily Vasiliauskas confirms that Macbeth had an akrasia state of