sometimes drives people to partake in totally unnatural actions.

Some forms of ambition can push people into becoming a person

very sinister and evil, as demonstrated in Macbeth. The ambition

which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth encounter within the play not

only drives them to become ruthless killers, but is the cause of

Lady Macbeth’s insanity and the demise of both of the characters.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth turn away from the honest and gentle

people they once were and instead become “the dead butcher

and his fiend-like queen.” ( V, viii, 69 )

The fiend-like queen or Lady Macbeth is first seen in the play

after receiving a letter from Macbeth. This letter was the start of

her downfall and first presents the change in Lady Macbeth. Only

moments after reading the letter, Lady Macbeth learns that the

king himself will be staying with Macbeth and herself in their

castle that evening. At this time she already begins thinking of

Duncan’s murder as seen when she comments, “The raven

himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan…and

fill me, from the crown to the toe, top full of dir

because he fears that Banquo’s children will become kings of

him to the witches who present him with two strange prophecies;

and deeper engrossed in his madness, Lady Macbeth begins to

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