Causes Of Ambition In Macbeth

What Ambition Cause

Many fictional stories include a tragic hero, which is also considered a protagonist. A tragic hero refers to a person who is high standing at the beginning of the story, but goes through a downfall as the story goes on because of their character flaws. An example of a flaw that a character may contain is ambition. Being ambitious can lead to self destruction because the character strives to accomplish their goals. William Shakespeare's novel Macbeth demonstrates a character, who is Macbeth, is an example of a protagonist that fits the definition of a tragic hero in the play, which Macbeth who is ambitious. Macbeth is loyal and is a trusted person at the beginning of the play. However, his ambitiousness in his character allowed his self destruction and the

In addition, Macbeth murders innocent characters to refrain from losing what he already contains. Macbeth fits the traditional definition of a tragic hero by possessing a character flaw of ambition containing a strong desire of accomplishment leading to Macbeth’s destruction and feeling that pain both internally and externally.

Many protagonists or supporting characters at certain situations may feel heavy responsibility of what they have committed to harms others. Macbeth’s ambitious character flaw causes him to contain the feeling of guilt of committing murder with his own hands and someone else doing his “dirty work”. As proof, right after Macbeth murders Duncan, he and Lady Macbeth discusses about the latter’s guilt-ridden feelings that he contains. Macbeth is frightened of what he has just committed, also being exposed as the culprit of the murder of the king. An example of how Macbeth describes this type of feeling of guilt is, “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more:/ Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep” (2.2 38-39). Shakespeare uses imagery to express Macbeth’s degree of how much he is