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  • Essay / Macbeth Ambition Essay - 561

    In the play Macbeth, ambition plays a big role, especially in the lives of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth's ambition to be the best overwhelms his true character, causing him to change enormously. He will do anything to surpass others, which makes his character stand out. Lady Macbeth is ambitious for Macbeth's sake, which makes him ambitious. Shakespeare highlights the theme that devastation follows ambition when ambition exceeds moral bounds, which is relevant not only in this play, but in our world today. The witches have predicted and have just given Macbeth news of what will happen to him in the future, and now he is determined to make it happen. He claims that the witches told him two things that have already come true, so he is now convinced that he will become the thane of Glamis and the thane of Cawdor. Macbeth says: “My thought, the murder of which is still only fantastic, so shakes my unique state of man that the function is stifled in conjectures, and nothing is but what is not. » (1.3.152-155). The witches haven't said anything about the murder, yet it's the first thing that happens to them....