During the play, Macbeth's strengths were ambition, courage, and honour. Before the murders, Macbeth used these qualities and earned him a new title “Thane of Cawdor”. “For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour’s minio

Even after becoming king, his endless ambitions lead him into misery and tragic ending. Being obsessed by the witches’ prophecy, he even tries to control his future, “He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety. There is none but he whose being I do fear, and under him my genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony’s was by Caesar…Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe, thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand, no son of mine succeeding…”

Lady Macbeth was also responsible for causing Macbeth’s ambition to become a tragic flaw. When Macbeth tells his wife that they won’t murder Duncan, she replies “How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me- I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from is boneless gums, and dashed the brains out had I sworn as you have done to this”. This state

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