Overcoming an ambition can be satisfying but harmful if it gets out of control. In
             the novel "Dirty Money" by Steven Womack and William Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" both share a common theme of ambition. The protagonists in both narrative have a goal desired to be achieved, go through a crucial obstacle in order to succeed, and their ambition accomplished what they are yearning for.
             Harry Denton and Macbeth are ambitious men who have a goal they eagerly want to achieve. Both are also inspired by their significant other and have a willingness to prove they are capable.
             Harry's goal is to help detect a major money laundering operation secretly being run in Reno's legal cathouse, the Mustang Ranch, by working in disguise as a handyman. What inspires him to attempt the mission is his ex-girlfriend who had spoken so highly of him that made him wonder, "maybe there was something inside of me that needed to prove her right, if not to her, then to me" (Womack, 2000, p.143). Harry already was a Private Investigator and feels it's a task he needs to attempt or else he might lose his dignity.
             Macbeth's goal is to gain excessive power and become the king of Scotland. What compelled him to go after the crown was that witches prophecy of him becoming king one day and when he told his wife, Lady Macbeth, the news she wanted him to do whatever is required to seize the crown, "you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty" (Shakespeare, I, v, 38-41). He was strongly urged by his wife and wanted to prove his manliness.
             Harry Denton and Macbeth encounter a main obstacle they have to conquer for them to be successful in achieving their goal.
             While working as a handyman at the Ranch trying to seek evidence of money laundering, Harry gets pegged prime of a murder he did not commit
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