Examples Of Ambition In Macbeth

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Carnal Ambition

Shakespeare's play Macbeth, illustrates a story of violence, action, and ambition. This play follows the main character, Macbeth, who holds excellent determination and fascinating destinies. Overtime Macbeth fails to see the counter responses of his actions. The root of Macbeth’s obliviousness is his self serving deeds.

Macbeth's lust for power makes him blind to the mental agony he brings upon himself in following his desire. In order to have the throne for himself Macbeth understands -through the help of his wife- that he must kill Duncan. Before he does so, he speaks to himself and gathers that “If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’d jump the life to come,” (1.2.2 -7). Since Macbeth mentions that he would risk life in hell

Which results in his inability to recognize the horrific death of his morality. When Macbeth weights the choice between giving up the throne to Banquo’s sons or murdering them, he decides with an assurity that his previous murder could not of been in vain. He discusses the decision to himself and concludes with certainty that “Given to the common enemy of man, to make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to th' utterance,” (3.1.72-75). Though Macbeth shows he is mindful of Banquo and his family, he does not want to give the throne he obtained. In fact, he is assured he does not want to give up the throne to the point that he hires murderers to kill Banquo and his sons. As well as, in his mind, creating the illusion that the murders were not committed by his hands, but by the hands of others. His false responsibility is the cause of the terror he feels, when he sees Banquo's