MACBETH
MACBETH’S Ambition about Becoming a King
Submitted by
Nohely Cuevas
English 10
Mrs. McMillan
10/22/14
In the play Macbeth, ambition, strength, and insanity play major roles in how the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth behave and react. People change over the time and as you ready the play some character will change but some are not. The destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints.
Lady Macbeth is portrayed as being monstrously evil in the first three acts of the play. When her character is first introduced, her strength and ambition are evident as she assures her husband that the witches' prophesy will indeed come true. She laments her womanhood, and, in a chilling compact with evil, prays to be "unsexed" because she thinks that her femininity makes her weak. Tormented by guilt and the havoc which she has put into motion, her mind becomes "infected". Lady Macbeth's decline ends in suicide. (Act 1 Scene 5): Lady Macbeth receives Macbeth's letter, analyses his character, and invokes the forces of evil.
Macbeth is a respected general, a devoted husband, and a loyal subject of the king. The first of the witches' prophecies bring out his ambitious nature, but he struggles with killing the king. Then Macbeth becomes paranoid, suffering from hallucinations and sleeplessness. He becomes less human as he tries over and over to establish his manhood. His ruthlessness in killing Banquo and Macduff's family shows how perverted his idea of manliness really is. Macbeth is, of course, mistaken about the witches' prophecies, but this just that he now allows his evil nature to control his actions. By the end, Macbeth has degenerated into evil personified, totally inhumane in his actions. (Act 1 Scene 7): Macbeth reflects on what is needed to achieve his ambition and Lady Macbeth taunts him to 'screw your courage to the sticking place.' (Act 3 Scene 1): Macbeth determines to kill Banquo in order to prevent his children succeeding
Submitted by
Nohely Cuevas
English 10
Mrs. McMillan
10/22/14
In the play Macbeth, ambition, strength, and insanity play major roles in how the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth behave and react. People change over the time and as you ready the play some character will change but some are not. The destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints.
Lady Macbeth is portrayed as being monstrously evil in the first three acts of the play. When her character is first introduced, her strength and ambition are evident as she assures her husband that the witches' prophesy will indeed come true. She laments her womanhood, and, in a chilling compact with evil, prays to be "unsexed" because she thinks that her femininity makes her weak. Tormented by guilt and the havoc which she has put into motion, her mind becomes "infected". Lady Macbeth's decline ends in suicide. (Act 1 Scene 5): Lady Macbeth receives Macbeth's letter, analyses his character, and invokes the forces of evil.
Macbeth is a respected general, a devoted husband, and a loyal subject of the king. The first of the witches' prophecies bring out his ambitious nature, but he struggles with killing the king. Then Macbeth becomes paranoid, suffering from hallucinations and sleeplessness. He becomes less human as he tries over and over to establish his manhood. His ruthlessness in killing Banquo and Macduff's family shows how perverted his idea of manliness really is. Macbeth is, of course, mistaken about the witches' prophecies, but this just that he now allows his evil nature to control his actions. By the end, Macbeth has degenerated into evil personified, totally inhumane in his actions. (Act 1 Scene 7): Macbeth reflects on what is needed to achieve his ambition and Lady Macbeth taunts him to 'screw your courage to the sticking place.' (Act 3 Scene 1): Macbeth determines to kill Banquo in order to prevent his children succeeding