Ambition In Macbeth

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, several evil deeds are committed out of sheer ambition. While the protagonist, Macbeth ultimately pays the price for these sinful acts, one can argue that Macbeth was manipulated into doing many, if not all, of the crimes. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth is easily influenced to commit all of the immoral acts in this play. At first Macbeth becomes influenced by the three witches and their leader Hecate due to his naive and trusting nature, Macbeth gets controlled by his cunning wife because of his fragile masculinity, and Macduff unintentionally leads him to crime by provoking him.

To begin, the Three Witches and their evil leader, Hecate, are the first to lead Macbeth to his doom. In Act 1, Scene

In Act 1, Scene 5, from the second Lady Macbeth read Macbeth’s letter to her, King Duncan's life is imperiled. She expresses her idea to manipulate Macbeth into murder by saying, “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear” (1.5.24-25). Lady Macbeth tells him to hurry home so she can make him believe regicide will be completely necessary for them to be royal. Lady Macbeth has the cruelty of a man, and every time Macbeth goes against her, or messes up, she insults his masculinity and gets him to do what she wants. In Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth is starting to doubt that he can kill Duncan, he feels as if he doesn’t want to betray the trust Duncan has put into him, when he tells his wife about his doubts she emasculates him immediately, “When you durst do it, then you were a man” (1.7.54). Lady Macbeth makes him feel bad that he “promised her to be queen” and then has doubts. She even compares his ability to do a sexual act to his manliness. Every time Lady Macbeth makes Macbeth feel unmanly and small, he then allows himself to be molded by his wife. This allows Lady Macbeth to easily manipulate him to do her