Examples Of Lady Macbeth's Ambition

Lady Macbeth’s Ambition Ambition a strong desire to do or achieve something, typically requiring determination and hardwork. William Shakespeare's Macbeth is all about ambition. Macbeth focuses on two dynamic characters who change from the start to end of the play. Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth and she is an ambitious and power hungry. However she changes over the course of the play because she becomes guilty and ultimately takes her own life.

Lady Macbeth begins the play as a strong power hungry women. She will do anything to make her husband, Macbeth a king. In act one the idea of him becoming a king is put her into her head because Macbeth meets three witches who profises him becoming king one day. Lady Macbeth comes up with a plan. “That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood.”(1.5-46-50). Lady Macbeth is power hungry enough that she is willing to kill the present king, Duncan. In this part she is creating a plan with Macbeth to kill Duncan when he stays at their castle. They both believe that this is the only way they can make

In Macbeth’s mind he must get rid of him just as he did to Duncan so he can be king for as long as the country lets him. Lady Macbeth disagrees with this. When Macbeth tells her his plan she says “Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content: 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”(3.5-6-9). Here she is questioning her actions as well as her husband's. This is the first time we see her panic. She knows that Banquo is as innocent as Duncan’s guards. She believes that her husband is becoming too paranoid and she is going to call him out on it before it gets way out of