Macbeth ambition quotes1/7/2024 Manipulation and selfish ambition changed him from the loyal good ambitious soldier to a traitor. Macbeth goes ahead to kill King Duncan and is crowned immediately just as planned by his wife. He confesses to being overpowered by his ambition to act against his intent. Macbeth finds it hard to decide on murdering the king but when accused by his wife of being a coward and unloving husband, he decides to execute the murder. She allows evil spirits to take away her femininity in exchange for bitterness to carry out the fouls necessary in ensuring her husband becomes the king. She has an evil ambition to become the queen and even evokes evil spirits to help her manipulate her husband. Lady Macbeth takes it on her own to manipulate her husband to kill the king so as to ascend to power. “Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without This however not an excuse as it is within his power to turn down the manipulation and trickery. It requires external forces to change MacBeth’s good ambitions to evil. This shows that Macbeth is too humane to carry out any evil act of greed for power. As Lady Macbeth reads the letter, she confesses to fear her husband’s willingness to forsake his morals for the evil required to become the king. Lady Macbeth is now aware of her husband’s ambition to be the king but fears he is too timid to do all that is necessary to ensure he ascends to the throne. The king visits Macbeth in his house and he uses this opportunity to write a letter to his wife revealing the witches’ prophecy about him becoming the king. He is to become the king by chance and the spell of the witches without doing anything significant. This clearly shows that he has lost the ambition to work for his success. Macbeth is now convinced that he will succeed by chance. They also told his friend Banquo that his sons will be kings They are convinced that the witches’ power is genuine as Macbeth is crowned the title of Thane of Cawdor as prophesied by the witches. Macbeth learns that he will be crowned the Thane of Cawdor and become the king immediately after the encounter. This good ambition changes immediately after the encounter with the three witches who corrupt their ambition with deceitful prophecies. Macbeth has the power to send Duncan to either Heaven or Hell.His companion Banquo is equally ambitious to perform to the best of his ability. This shows us how much power and determination Macbeth actually has, the sleeping Duncan’s life literally is in Macbeth’s hand. And how that same bell will summon Duncan to either Heaven or Hell, therefore implying that he will die. How the simple bell that the coast was clear, invites Macbeth to execute his dark deeds and move one step closer to his vaulting ambition. In this quote we can truly see the extent and execution of Macbeth’s ambition for power. That summons thee to heaven or to hell.” () And how this hallucination even showed him the weapon he was really going to use to kill Duncan. He even proceeds to question is the dagger he sees floating in front of him is as “palpable” (the ability to touch it) as the dagger he is truly holding in his hand. How his desire to become king actually causes him to go mad, and start to see a floating dagger leading him to Duncan’s quarters. In this quote we can see how his ambition and his deep dark desires are affecting his psychological state. Another interesting thing is how Ross claims that this ambition is against nature itself (from the point of view of Duncan’s own kids killing him, which is in fact unnatural). We can clearly see he got one thing right, that truly ambition is the cause for Duncan’s death, but instead of Duncan’s sons it was actually Macbeth. In this quote we can see Ross blaming the King’s sons for killing their own father just because of ambition. The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.” () Thine own lives’ means! Then ’tis most like
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