Ambition is a strong desire for fame or success. One automatically thinks that ambition is a good and honorable trait; many of us also consider ambition to be successful. In William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth has great ambition, which in end leads to his demise. In the following essay you will understand how all of Macbeth's ambition lead him to a life of pain and also a quick death.

Macbeth's Ambition began with three witches. These witches met Macbeth and his friend Banquo one day and told Macbeth his prophecy. "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!" (1:2 lines 56-7). When hearing this, Macbeth wrote his wife and told her that the witches saluted him "...to the coming on of time with 'Hail, King that shalt be!'"(1.5. 9) When Macbeth returns to his castle and greets his wife telling her "...Duncan [the King] comes here tonight." (1.5. 67) and Lady Macbeth expresses that "...never/shall sun that morrow see!"(1.5 70-1). Lady Macbeth was telling Macbeth that Duncan would never see the after tomorrow because they were going to kill him. Lady Macbeth put fuel in Macbeth's fire, this fire was hi

The next act of ambition was when Macbeth decided he would kill his friend Banquo. His spiteful ambition caused him to remember the witches "Hailed upon him [Banquo] farther to a line of kings." (3.1. 64). Macbeth felt threatened because he was "...placed a fruitless crown..."(3.1. 65) Macbeth had no children to be successors to the thrown so he knew that one day Banquo's children would finally take him over and become the King. Macbeth's ambition boiled inside of him so he told the murders to go and kill Banquo since Banquo tyrant supposedly was there enemy. When the murders agree with Macbeth's idea of killing Banquo, Macbeth says to himself "...Banquo, thy soul's a flight,/If it find heaven, must find it out tonight." (3.1 177-8). Macbeth assures himself that Banquo will be killed and he is so excited that finally he will have no one in his path.

s ambition, and from that day forward all he could think about was becoming king and nothing else. He would do whatever it took to become King including killing the King. Macbeth later questions himself about why he is killings the King. Macbeth says that he has "... no spur to prick the sides of [his]

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