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Essay / The influence of ambition in Macbeth by William...
Everyone in their mind has some type of ambition that can influence them in the wrong way. There are good and bad ambitions. As César Chavez once said: “We cannot seek success for ourselves and forget the progress and prosperity of our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, to them and for ours. » Macbeth's ambition is to change the perspective of many things. The things that corrupted him are the prophecy, Lady Macbeth, and the three apparitions. The prophecy comes from the Weird Sisters, or the three witches, and the three apparitions. The three witches announce to Macbeth that he will be king by saying: “Hello everyone, Macbeth! Hail to you, Thane of Glamis!, Hail to you all, Macbeth! Hello, Thane of Cawdor! Hail to you, Macbeth, who will henceforth be king! (I.III.52-57). Macbeth gets a little glimpse of his future. The three witches tell him that he will rule Glamis, Cawdor and much more. Macbeth's ambition here is to know more and to know how it will turn out. The witches also tell Banquo that he will have heirs or rule, he will be less than Macbeth, but greater, and not so happy, but happier. Macbeth does not take any action in his prophecy because at the present time in the story he is very noble towards his king. At this point in the play, Macbeth is at the beginning of his ambition. Macbeth wants to know more and has the ambition to see how all these scenarios will play out. Macbeth's ambitions grow greatly after the three witches attempt to light a fire in his heart so that he will want all the success of being the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth knows what he must do to become king, but he is not sure he wants to do it. In Act I, Macbeth is really... middle of paper ... Lady Macduff runs out of the room and the murderer that Macbeth hired to kill Macduff kills her as well. I won't explain the rest of the story because there isn't much about Macbeth's ambition, but about how he died honorably fighting to the death. Macbeth's ambition spiraled out of control in Scenes IV. He started with little ambition to kill his friend and the king. Lady Macbeth's thoughts and her unencouraging words made him more ambitious to commit this horrible murder. With this in mind, the biggest spike in ambition came when he knew Macduff would fight and Banquo would rule. Macbeth didn't want that, so he killed them both and Macduff's family. All I can say is that Macbeth's ambition got him killed. As Cesar Chavez said, “Your ambition must be based on including the aspirations of others and yourself »..”