Macbeth Ambition Essay
Ambition Ambition means an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as wealth or frame, and the willingness to strive for it. The theme in Macbeth is ambition and the pursuit of powers causes downfall. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth displays sinister actions and later starts confessing the things she did. Ambition is a big point in Macbeth, with the characters relationship to influence the direction where the play goes, such as cruelty and manliness, and the emotions of her guilt. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth displays ambition when she and Macbeth plot to kill King Duncan. Act V reveals how the characters have changed. Lady Macbeth in act V scene I reveals how the killing of Duncan has changed her. Lady Macbeth says, “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten his hand, oh, oh, oh!” (V.I.45). Lady Macbeth has become more fearful that people will find out that they killed Duncan, and that the sins will still be with them. Lady Macbeth displays the way she feels about the killing of
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Lady Macbeth’s guilt of killing the King made her reveal ambition: “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One-two-why then‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murkey. Fie, my lord, fire! A solider and afeard? What need we fear who knows, it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? (V.I. 34-39). In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth used this to explain ambition on what she has done. To this point Lady Macbeth relized that killing the King wasn’t a good idea and they were going to get caught. For the guilt to be with her is driving her insane and this gets her to show her feeling over the murder her and her husband commited. Lady Macbeth finally knows what hell feels like with the crime she committed. The blood Lady Macbeth still sees on her brings the guilt out of
Lady Macbeth’s guilt of killing the King made her reveal ambition: “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One-two-why then‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murkey. Fie, my lord, fire! A solider and afeard? What need we fear who knows, it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? (V.I. 34-39). In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth used this to explain ambition on what she has done. To this point Lady Macbeth relized that killing the King wasn’t a good idea and they were going to get caught. For the guilt to be with her is driving her insane and this gets her to show her feeling over the murder her and her husband commited. Lady Macbeth finally knows what hell feels like with the crime she committed. The blood Lady Macbeth still sees on her brings the guilt out of