Macbeth's Ambition Of A Rider

Ambition of a Rider
A highly ambitious character that fails is a literary motif throughout literature. When most people hear ambition, they usually think of someone having strong will to succeed. The term “ambition” is referred to as a positive entity, where a person has a strong drive to accomplish something. Too much ambition can lead to extreme needs and can result in greediness and self-destruction. Someone who is too ambitious can lose track of their principles and be easily influenced by a psychopath. There is a list of characteristics and behaviors that prescribe a person as a psychopath. Psychopath’s can often be violent or make irrational decisions. Their personalities can lack remorse/shame, be untruthful, and have many more flaws.

He wants a perfect world where everything can go his way, forgetting about other people’s existence. As a result a common trait with psychopaths is that they lack empathy; Macbeth does not care for the general population very much. He states that; “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant. There's nothing serious in mortality, all is but toys. Renown and grace is dead. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees is left this vault to brag of’’ (Act.2 Sc.3 Line 110). Macbeth wishes that he died before the king was murdered, so he can say he lived a perfect life. He believes that nothing else in life matters, and compares humans to inanimate toys. The king is dead, so happiness all over the world is gone and the world is in ashes. Macbeth is being very stoic when the king dies, lacking empathy saying one man's death is the ruins of all civilization. A psychopath does not care if other people are hurt, they only care about accomplishing their goals. Macbeth says that all happiness is gone to him; he wishes he died before this event just to say his life was perfect. Macbeth is saying that everyone he has murdered, or deaths around him have no meaning. But Macbeth was the one that did this to Duncan, and he is guilty of this crime. Macbeth is angry at the world, acting like he cannot take responsibility for his actions. He says that the king's death is worth all

Lady Macbeth even says that she would do the same for him if he did things for her; “Does unmake you. I have given suck, know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I sworn as you have done to this” (Act. 1 Sc.7 Line 62-67). Lady Macbeth talks about how she has taken care of a child before etc. But then Lady Macbeth brings up that while the baby is feeding from her happily, she would throw it against a wall and kill it, just to prove her loyalty to him. Lady Macbeth would kill an innocent child, just to prove a point that she is candid with him. Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth, and motivates him, like she is a puppeteer. Macbeth has it in him to be a psychopath with the demon inside him; Lady Macbeth was able to get it out of him and now the demon is free and it is making irrational decisions and he is reacting sociopathic. Lady Macbeth is his partner in crime, but instead of helping him, she motivates him to pursue bad motives, reassuring him that what he is doing is right. Macbeth could have been a different story if Macbeth had not been with Lady Macbeth. He could have hidden his treacherous ways and been a generous king and less violent. Perhaps another story would be; if Macbeth