Impact of Ambition on self and others
Desires, needs, and temptations are all normal in the sense that they are part of the human nature. However, the question remains; how far is one willing to go, to achieve these yearning wants? When an individual loses all sense of their morals, they are only then driven by ambition; thus loosing themselves as individuals because who you are as a person, is a reflection of one’s beliefs. This idea is portrayed in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, where the constant disputes between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s aspirations and principles, destroy every bit of their morals. Hence, their plan to murder King Duncan is the stepping-stone that ultimately
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As a result, Macbeth and his wife’s desire to gain superiority and wealth empowers them, hence, blinds them from their humanity. Contrastingly, Macduff uses his morals to drive his ambition, who in return gains success and restores hope for Scotland.
Macbeth’s vaulting ambition to become the King of Scotland drives him to abandon his moralistic values, even if it means to inflict harm upon others, regardless of how close they are to him. When he encounters the witches who present him with the prophecies, he learns that he has become the ‘Thane of Cawdor, fulfilling two of the witch’s prophecies. Macbeth figures out that the last prophecy may also become true. However, he does not take any actions himself to inherit the crown instead, leaves it to fate because he believes “if chance will have me king/why chance may/crown me/without my stir,” (Act 1.3). However, as the play proceeds, Macbeth becomes more ambitious through the influence of his wife Lady Macbeth who understands that Macbeth has a lust for the throne except, fears that her husband would be a coward when attempting to murder Duncan and overthrow him. Lady Macbeth regards her husband as an individual who is “full of the milk of human kindness”.
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Lady Macbeth’s first response to Macbeth’s letter; telling her about the witches’ prophecy, is to kill King Duncan. While Macbeth is hesitant at first, she does not fluctuate; not once, which shows how ruthless she is. Lady Macbeth does not care about the effect of her actions upon others, ultimately herself as well. When Macbeth questions her plan to kill the king she responds, “look like th’ innocent flower/but be the serpent under’t,” (Act 1.5). At this point, Lady Macbeth is only considering after herself, however, as the guilt starts to catch up to her, she begins to lose all sanity when she says, “out dammed spot!,” (Act 5.1) to something that isn’t even there-blood. This proves her inability to think rationally, which makes her go insane and thus is the reason what causes her
...rn day society, illusive ambitions can be incredibly detrimental, just as they are demonstrated to be in Macbeth. Ambitions, if they are untamed, can be an impediment to free will; they can overpower your good conscience, possibly leading you into causing death and destruction. They can also corrupt one’s mental health, while practically morphing that person’s perception of reality into something demonstrably wrong and twisted. Finally, they can boost ones ego to a point where that person is engulfed and imprisoned in the vehemence of their own denial, which can ultimately bear fatal consequences. If one’s hopes and desires are innately destructive, then it logically follows that that one’s ambition is also innately destructive; be wary of one with an immense ambition.
Macbeth’s blind ambition leads him to surrender to his dark desires that taunt him throughout the play. Macbeth is frequently tempted to result to the wrongful methods that seem to roam inside of him. In the beginning however Macbeth tends to ignore these desires and depends on chance. He declares “if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir” (Shakespeare, act 1, scene 3, 143-144). This declaration by Macbeth shows his initial stand, which is reliant on fate and sin free. Yet as Macbeth’s character develops throughout the play, he moves farther from his dependence on chance and closer to his darker desires. Eventually his blind ambition to become king overp...
Seeking for greater power, Macbeth murders Duncan who is the king at that time, which caused a great pain for the kingdom. Duncan is a great king, but just not a so good human reader. He has never been aware of Macbeth. He never have a thought that Macbeth might be a danger, who is willing to kill him for the throne. On the other hand, Macbeth does not accept to be just a general for the rest of his life. He wants a greater power, higher position than he is having at the time. Because of the suggests from the trio witches: “ All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!/ All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(1.2.49-50), Macbeth has the thinking about killing the king to take his throne. By calling Macbeth the Thane of Cawdor, they give Macbeth the thought that being a king is his fate. On the night Macbeth is planning to murder Duncan, the Old Man see many strange events: “And Duncan’s horses (a thing most strange and certain),/ Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, /Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out/ Contending ‘gainst obedience, as they would/ Make war with mankind” (2.4.14-18). It creates a scary feeling in the kingdom, and means something bad will happen to the kingdom.
she has a distorted or unstable image of herself which could possibly lead to many
Ambition played a role in Macbeths, when things started getting bad. When all the killing started going on. Macbeth story begins with a violent story, where they killed the king without knowing who it was. They try to find out who it was but that nobody knew. Macbeth’s ambition to become king leads him to kill Duncan and who ever makes the prophecy of the witches that Macbeth will become king. We start with some creepy witches talking about some guy named Macbeth , and then cut to post battle, where we learn that Macbeth has been kicking serious. The ambition of Macbeth is so big that he would even get to kill innocent people, for example, the two guards that see him on the scene of Duncan’s dead’s Macbeth’s kills. Macbeth is going home on
Nothing to act upon, nothing to want. This would make the characters simply, lazy in general effort. “That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements” (Shakespeare 38-39). Lady Macbeth had ambition to plan the original murder of King Duncan. This leads to the reasoning that before Duncan was killed, the plot had a baseboard and backbone to go off of, not reasonless and for fun.
When individuals experience ambition, their lives can change drastically. Macbeth describes how his life begins to change when his ambition brings guilt into his life: “will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / clean from my hand” (II.ii.78-79). Shakespeare describes how ambition can lead to unavoidable regret. Macbeth takes many lives, and will never rid himself of his victims’ blood. However,
Dreams, they are good to have and to be desired. However when the need for that dream to come true is too much, they become one's downfall. Many literatures from the Anglo-Saxon era have displayed such ambition in its stories. None of these stories would not have happened if it were not for the driven ambitions of the characters in these tales. The concept of ambition leading to downfall is illustrated among these literatures through character's outcome of their main objective.
Ambition is an individual's sense of motivation and passion that influences them towards carrying out certain actions. Their greed, however, may twist their aspirations into a dark and wicked persona of their former desires, leading them to pursue a devious means of fulfilling their objectives. This theme is present in the play Macbeth, in which the easily influenced character of Macbeth falls victim to prophecies and his wife’s cunning ideals, eventually trodding on a path to perceived power that would only spell out his downfall. In the tragedy, Macbeth, playwright William Shakespeare explores the idea that a greedy individual will go to extent of altering their own personality for the better pursuit of their ambitions, this ambition becoming
Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband to kill the king of Scotland so he will rule as king. In the start of the play, Lady Macbeth seems to be the more evil one. She believes that her husband is “too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness”, meaning that he is too good to seize the throne by murder. She helps Macbeth plan the killing of Duncan. After they committed the murder Lady Macbeth started to feel guilty. Her guilt starts to take control over her that she starts to sleepwalk and kept washing her hand repeatedly in he sleep. She washes her hand thinking that they are covered in blood, because of their killing. Her hallucinations
Do people tend to have ambitions that succumb to the thoughts put in their head by the ideas they are surrounded by? In Macbeth written by William Shakespeare one can see a strong warrior named Macbeth become a tyrant through his acts of ambition caused by the people that he is surrounded by and his beliefs in weird sisters. Because of Macbeth’s desire, an individual can see change of ambition through positive and negative acts of himself and people around him. In the beginning of the play of Macbeth believes that there is something in favour of him in his life--a sense of pronoia.
“Macbeth” Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and, to this day, it is still one of the most widely read literary pieces worldwide. He makes this play so intense and interesting by incorporating so many plot twists, which keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting to read more. While watching his plays live in theater their costumes are filled with magnificent details and so is the scenery. However, in the actual text, Shakespeare leaves out many details concerning the costumes and scenery, which leaves ample room for the reader to imagine the play in their own way.
Everyone has some kind of ambition. They will do absolutely anything to get what they want, but how far would you go to get what you want? In “Macbeth” by Shakespeare, Macbeth’s life changed when prophecies were told to him by the witches. Him becoming King was one of the prophecies the witches told him but he was not told how he would get there, therefore it was his choice as to how he would get to that position.
When you think of ambition , you think about the passion to want something and you think about all the things that can help you reach the goal of your ambition. Ambition is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically needing determination and hard work. Throughout many scenes and lines during the poem you see people who have ambition and also see the bad things that ambition can make you do. It is shown by many people who all wanted something that they couldn’t just have. This essay will focus on certain roles and see how exactly ambition can make people do things just to get something that they want.
This second encounter has changed him even more, because he took the path of the dagger and killed Duncan. Macbeth is named king after Duncan’s