macbeth

Are you stronger than your ambition?

Ambition is a strong desire for fame or success. One automatically thinks that ambition is a good and honorable trait; many of us also consider ambition to be successful. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth has great ambition, which in end leads to his demise. In the following essay you will understand how all of Macbeth’s ambition lead him to a life of pain and also a quick death.

Macbeth’s Ambition began with three witches. These witches met Macbeth and his friend Banquo one day and told Macbeth his prophecy. “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!” (1:2 lines 56-7). When hearing this, Macbeth wrote his wife and told her that the witches saluted him “…to the coming on of time with ‘Hail, King that shalt be!’”(1.5. 9) When Macbeth returns to his castle and greets his wife telling her “…Duncan [the King] comes here tonight.” (1.5. 67) and Lady Macbeth expresses that “…never/shall sun that morrow see!”(1.5 70-1). Lady Macbeth was telling Macbeth that Duncan would never see the after tomorrow because they were going to kill him. Lady Macbeth put fuel in Macbeth’s fire, this fire was his ambi

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We also feel we need ambition to help us reach our goals, but when ambition is stronger than our moral will we go as far as to killing innocent people and killing our selves for one measly title?. Macbeth later questions himself about why he is killings the King. Macbeth felt that he always was going to live as king so he ran around telling everyone that he “must not yield/ to one of woman born”(5. He accepted some pieces to the puzzle and in the end when the puzzle was completed he didn’t like the picture and decided he was strong enough to change it. Macbeth was still extremely arrogant and his ambition was pushing him forward that he decided not to listen (for the first time) to his prophecy and go on and fight Macduff. His spiteful ambition caused him to remember the witches “Hailed upon him [Banquo] farther to a line of kings. 8 32-3) In the end Macduff beheaded Macbeth. Macduff finally heard this and told Macbeth that he was from his mothers womb but “…untimely ripped” (5.

Approximate Word count = 780
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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