Macbeth was good, courageous, and loyal before the manipulation and trickery. Unlike Macbeth, his wife is malicious from the onset. The theme of ambition in this play is properly presented using the characterization of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. His head was too drunk for power to the point of no return and had to be chopped off to restore sanity to the leadership. Macduff grows up to terminate MacBeth by the sword fulfilling the adage that he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword. He ensures that Macduff is not born naturally but untimely ripped off his mother’s womb. He is determined to carry on his evil since it is now too late to change anything. He starts to regret and wishes to have led a normal life to an honorable age but it is now too late. McBeth’s discovers how his unrestrained ambition has destroyed him at the end of the play when his wife runs insane and commits suicide. Macbeth is now too ambitious to destroy anything blocking his way to the throne. Banquo, who helped him achieve genuine success and recognition is now the obstacle to be abolished in order to become the king. His unrestrainable ambition has killed his value for true friendship. It is clearly questionable why MacBeth is now afraid of Banquo and not before. He had to go against his morals for selfish gains and betray his trust in the king and his friend Banquo. However, it is clear that it is his unrestrained ambition which caused him to yield to the manipulation and trickery from his wife and the witches to change his good character to evil. From the beginning of the play, it is evident that Macbeth loved and adored. It can be argued that Macbeth could not have killed the king without Lady Macbeth’s manipulation and the vague prophecies from the witches. His good ambition to be loyal and of service to his king and country at the beginning of the play has totally changed to malicious, selfish, and evil ambition. The killing of the king had taken away MacBeth’s conscience and he is now too ambitious to be the king such that he cannot go back on his evil plans. This escalated Macbeth’s evil ambition and plots the killing of Banquo and his sons. Macbeth quotes Banquo’s suspicion and is also threatened by Banquo’s ambition and prediction of his sons becoming kings too. Banquo fears that Macbeth plotted the killing of the king for the witches’ prophecy to pass since they visited the witches together. His downfall begins to manifest after Banquo suspects that Macbeth had a hand in the murder of the king. Manipulation and selfish ambition changed him from the loyal good ambitious soldier to a traitor. Macbeth goes ahead to kill King Duncan and is crowned immediately just as planned by his wife. He confesses to being overpowered by his ambition to act against his intent. Macbeth finds it hard to decide on murdering the king but when accused by his wife of being a coward and unloving husband, he decides to execute the murder. She allows evil spirits to take away her femininity in exchange for bitterness to carry out the fouls necessary in ensuring her husband becomes the king. She has an evil ambition to become the queen and even evokes evil spirits to help her manipulate her husband. Lady Macbeth takes it on her own to manipulate her husband to kill the king so as to ascend to power. “Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without This however not an excuse as it is within his power to turn down the manipulation and trickery. It requires external forces to change MacBeth’s good ambitions to evil. This shows that Macbeth is too humane to carry out any evil act of greed for power. As Lady Macbeth reads the letter, she confesses to fear her husband’s willingness to forsake his morals for the evil required to become the king. Lady Macbeth is now aware of her husband’s ambition to be the king but fears he is too timid to do all that is necessary to ensure he ascends to the throne. The king visits Macbeth in his house and he uses this opportunity to write a letter to his wife revealing the witches’ prophecy about him becoming the king. He is to become the king by chance and the spell of the witches without doing anything significant. This clearly shows that he has lost the ambition to work for his success. Macbeth is now convinced that he will succeed by chance. They also told his friend Banquo that his sons will be kings They are convinced that the witches’ power is genuine as Macbeth is crowned the title of Thane of Cawdor as prophesied by the witches. Macbeth learns that he will be crowned the Thane of Cawdor and become the king immediately after the encounter. This good ambition changes immediately after the encounter with the three witches who corrupt their ambition with deceitful prophecies. His companion Banquo is equally ambitious to perform to the best of his ability.
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