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Macbeth Ambition Essay

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What are the author's ideas regarding the Impact of an individual's ambition on self and others?

In William Shakespeare’s play of “Macbeth”, the main character Macbeth portrays how one evil action can lead to becoming an evil person.Macbeth changes his character when he gains power and he pursues his ambition of staying in power through murdering all those thy lie in his way. “For mine own good/ All causes shall give away. I am in/ blood.” (III.iv.166-167). Macbeth realizes that contiuning in this journey is far much easier than attempting to return to his former character. This is an example of how ambition is a terrible thing when it is involved with greed.

The three witches were on of the major catalysts who drove Macbeth ambition. They planted the ideas of greatness and power into Macbteh’s mind, Leading him to become obsessed with power and ambition. The presented him with idea of becoming King of Scotland and that they gave him prophecies of his succes. The witches allowed Macbeth to believe his greatness so much that he was willing to murder the King in order to achieve his goal. The witches did not force Macbeth to act upon the prophecies but rather left an idea in his head. …show more content…

( I.III)” Upon hearing the witches prophecy about Macbeth being king, his ambition kicked in and he began to think greedly. All that was left on Macbeth’s mind was the thought of murdering King Duncan to gain power. Macbeth wanted his name to be forever remembered and he felt saw Banquo’s prophecy as a threat to the throne. He ordered his murder, diregarding the consequences becuase macbeth thought of himself as unstoppable, and noone was going to stop his ambition. Macbeth ambition and greed were his downfall as he was unable to eliminate Banquos future generation of kings. His inner ambition played a big role on his

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