Ambition And Guilt In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

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In Shakespeare "Macbeth" is a dark, tragedy tale about a Scottish guy Macbeth who gets encouraged by the prophesies by the three evil witches. There were many themes that stood out and they were Ambition, Fate vs. Free, The Nature vs. The Unnatural and Guilt.
Ambition means "a strong desire to do or to achieve something" well in Macbeth many of the people had ambition and showed it. The message of ambition is, to much ambition can destrow you and can destrow others. Macbeth says in Act 1 Scene 7, lines 25-28 on page 41 "the only thing motivating me is ambition, which makes people rush ahead of themselves toward disaster." The situation for Macbeth is that he tells Lady Macbeth he doesn’t want to follow through with the plan anymore. The reason why was because they finally met their demise. …show more content…

Macbeth says in Act 2 Scene 2, lines 48-50 on page 59 "I can't go back. Tim afraid even to think about what I've done. I can't stand to look at it again." The situation he was in was that he was scared and filled with guilt because he had killed the king. He's too afraid to go back and leave the dagger with the servants. Because of all this guilt and everything that he has done he hasn’t been able to sleep and has been seeing ghosts of the people he has killed. The message of this theme is you have to think of the consequences of your actions first before you do

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