Macbeth Blind Ambition

One day you wake up and are offered the position to be the ruler of your own country. Three wise women tell you that they have a prophecy, and from that knowledge of the future, they assure you that their prediction is true. Would you take the position? Macbeth did. What he didn’t realize though, was that he would have a severe case of blind ambition. Blind ambition is when people don’t consider the dangers associated with their desire to achieve something. In the play Macbeth, the character known as Macbeth lets his ambition eliminate his reasoning towards his desire to gain the crown. Both Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, let their determination get the best of them, and it leads to their eventual downfall. The strength of their drive,

He says, “This supernatural soliciting/cannot be ill, cannot be good./If ill, why hath it given me Earnest of Success,/Commencing in a truth?” (Shakespeare, ACT, SCENE) Macbeth doesn’t think that the prediction given by the three witches can be either good or bad. He says here that if it is so bad, why has it already given him nothing but good? He eventually gets to a point where he can’t control how badly he wants the crown to be his. He thinks that he has to make sure that the prophecy comes true by taking actions into his own hands. Macbeth becomes untrustworthy when the witches plant dangerously strong ambition in him, and his mind fills with evil. He transforms into someone who is thirsty for power and is unable to detach from his vile determination. He eventually becomes subverted by his blind

She had an overpowering sense of ambition from the start, and doesn’t hesitate to influence Macbeth into thinking that killing King Duncan to gain the throne is the only logical course of action to take. There’s a point in the play when she realizes her husband isn’t as ambitious as she is. She says, “Yet I do fear thy nature;/It is too full o’ the milk of/human kindness.” (Shakespeare,ACT,SCENE) At this point, we see the power in Lady Macbeth as her husband falls under her spell, and allows his power thirsty side to take full