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 ambition, and from that day forward all he could think about was becoming king and nothing else. He would do whatever it took to become King including killing the King. Macbeth later questions himself about why he is killings the King. Macbeth says that he has "... no spur to prick the sides of [his] intent, but only vaulting ambition" What Shakespeare was trying to say was that Macbeth had no reason to kill the king but only his ambition, he had this immense ambition that would cause him to commit tyranny and kill the King.
             The next act of ambition was when Macbeth decided he would kill his friend Banquo. His spiteful ambition caused him to remember the witches "Hailed upon him [Banquo] farther t...