Therefore, Macbeth wrote a letter to his wife Lady Macbeth telling her what happened. When she read the letter her first intention is to talk Macbeth into killing Duncan and to help him in achieving his goal. Macbeth at first has some reservations but Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by naming him "Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!â€" (1, 5, 53-54). After reading the letter from her husband, Lady Macbeth decides she wants to help him kill Duncan and she plans the murder even though Macbeth is hesitant about it. Lady Macbeth enters upon her evil side and wants to help Macbeth reach his goal and take over the throne. She shows that she is more ambitious for her husband than for herself ( Jameson 192). Lady Macbeth plans the murdering process of Duncan and in this procedure Macbeth feels that he has
             To prick the sides of my intent, but only
             Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
             Macbeth no longer wants to murder Duncan as his conscience overrides his initial intention to murder the King. Macbeth then realizes that his only motivation is ambition. Lady Macbeth's own ambition begins to take over as the ruling motive. Her ambition is displayed as an intense overmastering passion. When Macbeth's passion to kill Duncan shrinks, she is there to instigate the murder. It is displayed that as her ambition becomes greater, she starts showing her cruel and daring side (Jameson 191).
             In Act Two of The Tragedy of Macbeth, ambition is still being uncovered but Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's consciences starts to interfere with their ambition. For example, before Macbeth kills Duncan, he hallucinates and sees images before him. He imagines seeing a dagger in the air and wonders if this "is a dagger which I seeâ€" (2, 1, 33). Macbeth is seeing the bloody daggar as a hallucination because he has doubts about killing Duncan and is thinks it is a bad idea and it...