Macbeth
The Ambition of Macbeth
Macbeth is known for his significant amount of bravery and loyalty as a character in the play The Tragedy of Macbeth. Even though Macbeth has all the significant qualities of an average known hero, he also inherits bad ambitions throughout the story from three ornery witches that influence mischief upon his character. The witches reconstruct Macbeth’s ambitions from good to evil with the promise of power and riches. The evil witches help construct the storyline of Macbeth, and without them the story line would be completely different. They also have a strong effect on Macbeth’s good ambitions by gaining Macbeth’s trust by praising him for his accomplishments, which influences Macbeth to stir his ambitions for evil and to determine his own fate. In the beginning of the play The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth has a completely different outlook on his good ambitions than what he did at the end of the story. Macbeth’s character is first recognized when he defeats his nations enemy in battle. The Captain of the Scotland army explained Macbeth to the king as,
For brave Macbeth well he deserved the name
Disdaining fortune, with his brandishes steel, which smoke with bloody execution Like valor’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave
Which nev’r shook hanks, nor bad far well to him Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ cops And fixed his head upon our battlements. (15-20)
The King and the Captain of the army was honored to have such a brave warrior to give the title “Thane of Cawdor” to Macbeth after killing the old Thane that left the country and was considered a traitor. This shows that Macbeth has great deeds and was the possessor of power and strength in his country. Another example of Macbeth’s good ambitions is,
“The service and the loyalty I owe in doing it, pays itself.
Your Highness’ part is to receive our duties: and our duties Are to your throne and state children and servants
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Macbeth is known for his significant amount of bravery and loyalty as a character in the play The Tragedy of Macbeth. Even though Macbeth has all the significant qualities of an average known hero, he also inherits bad ambitions throughout the story from three ornery witches that influence mischief upon his character. The witches reconstruct Macbeth’s ambitions from good to evil with the promise of power and riches. The evil witches help construct the storyline of Macbeth, and without them the story line would be completely different. They also have a strong effect on Macbeth’s good ambitions by gaining Macbeth’s trust by praising him for his accomplishments, which influences Macbeth to stir his ambitions for evil and to determine his own fate. In the beginning of the play The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth has a completely different outlook on his good ambitions than what he did at the end of the story. Macbeth’s character is first recognized when he defeats his nations enemy in battle. The Captain of the Scotland army explained Macbeth to the king as,
For brave Macbeth well he deserved the name
Disdaining fortune, with his brandishes steel, which smoke with bloody execution Like valor’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave
Which nev’r shook hanks, nor bad far well to him Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ cops And fixed his head upon our battlements. (15-20)
The King and the Captain of the army was honored to have such a brave warrior to give the title “Thane of Cawdor” to Macbeth after killing the old Thane that left the country and was considered a traitor. This shows that Macbeth has great deeds and was the possessor of power and strength in his country. Another example of Macbeth’s good ambitions is,
“The service and the loyalty I owe in doing it, pays itself.
Your Highness’ part is to receive our duties: and our duties Are to your throne and state children and servants
Which do but