Foreshadow's Ambition In Macbeth

Unchecked ambition to attain goals is conveyed in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, as not having proper deservance of these goals will lead to demise. He exemplifies this by illustrating Macbeth’s downfall, as he sought supremacy and predominance for himself because of of his reckless ambition motivating him to obtain power using easier, but more wrongful alternatives. Macbeth’s metamorphosis of change is a result of numerous outside influences used to foreshadow occurrences in short-lived tyrannical reign as king.

As conveyed in the beginning of the story, Macbeth is someone who is admired for his heroic actions and demeanor. Due to Macbeth containing hamartia (a tragic flaw that leads to someone’s demise), Macbeth undergoes a series

After murdering King Duncan, so he himself can become king, was something that he had wished he had not done, as he killed his own relative, for his own gain. Though Macbeth would have wanted to stop he could not stop his own ambition, “I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other,” (Macbeth, I,vii,25-28), which led to himself being governed by ambition. After the success of the first stage of his plan, he decides to look deeper into the prophecy conceived by the witches. Worried that the rest of the prophecy will come true, and Banquo’s children will be kings, he murders both Banquo and his son, Fleance. In doing so Banquo is slain by murderers hired by Macbeth. This plan is spearheaded by Macbeth as, does not have any children to pass the crown down upon, and is frightened by the idea of Banquo’s children on the throne, “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so, For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered; Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for them; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them

As numerous outside sources attempted to superintend his existence, “What beast was't, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would. Be so much more the man,” (Lady Macbeth, I,vii,47-51), he became a being driven by his own blind ambition. As he was skeptical about committing the first murder; "Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other." (Macbeth, I,vii,26-28), he became enveloped by greed which compelled him to continue committing heinous acts, leaving a bloodshed in his wake. The origins of his tyranny can be traced back to the play’s initial act, as Macbeth stumbled across the three witches. Macbeth’s was dictated by this meager instance. As the words “All hail, Macbeth. Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor,” (Second Witch, I,iii,50), escaped the Second Witch’s lips, Macbeth found himself perplexed at the idea of himself, actually inheriting the title of Thane of Cawdor. Little did he know, he received the title, Thane of Cawdor, the ensuing day. As the prophesied events commenced, his ambition, was fueled, as he became a heartless, reckless person with little compassion for others. This lead him to murder Banquo; the witches presented the idea of Banquo’s children on the throne; and Macduff, as the witches warned Macbeth