These factors help prove the fact that some people would go to any lengths to get what should be theirs, which eventually results in their own downfall. ... Ambition is another motive that leads to the deception and jealousy of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth throughout the book. Macbeth's ambition to murder Banquo and Duncan, ultimately results in their own downfall. ... Jealousy, ambition and deception, lead to the characters eventual downfalls at the end of the story. The story of Macbeth is a good example of what a little ambition can do to someone, and what it can destroy in the long ru...

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"Grapple you to the heart and love of us, who wears his health but sickly in his life, which in his death were perfect" Macbeth Pg.366 Lines 105-107 Macbeth has become so greedy by his ambition; he would murder his own friend for his benefit. ... Macbeth's murderous ways will soon come to a stop, caused by his own death, but before that he himself killed a total of three people all because of his overzealous ambition and greed. ... His own actions accounted for his intense isolation. Ambitions and greed can lead to isolation. ... Over ambition and greed come from a world on the outside. ...

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Macbeth's ambition also assists in presenting the theme. Because of Macbeth's ambition he killed Duncan because of his wanting to become king after hearing from the witches. Because of his plethora of ambition Macbeth continued to kill anyone who got in his way of being king or anyone who had any amount of knowledge of the murders or the plot. Because of his knowledge of the future and his destiny he led himself to his own destruction. ...

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He describes it as his "vaulting ambition" and he knows that it's there and it's causing him to do these things. ... He has an unstoppable ambition represented by this hallucination. ... This drives her insane and causes her to end her own life. ... I would say Lady Macbeth has a major part to play in this tragedy with her powers of persuasion brought on by her own ambition, but I wouldn't completely blame her because Macbeth did carry on with the murders after her guilt had set in and she had ceased aiding him. ... The witches know all this is going to happen and the...

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Macbeth's courage, conscience and his tentative approach of moral wrongdoing are as extensive as his evil ambition, cunning and cruelty. While his good qualities bring him to the status he enjoys at the beginning of the play his 'vaulting ambition' (I.vii) exemplifies his less desirable characteristics. ... It is soon afterwards, however, that Macbeth's ambition begins to show itself as he does whatever he can to ensure the prophecy ' thou shalt be king hereafter.' ... Lady Macbeth who knows about Macbeth's intentions, thinks he is being faint-hearted and in...

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As the king stays the night at Macbteh's castle instead of protecting him from danger Macbeth turns against the king and uses his position of trust as an opportunity to further his own gain and kills him. He also betrays his country by murdering his king, destroying natural order, because his ambition and greed overcome his patriotism. ... He is supposed to do everything good for his country, but he only looks at his own interrests. ...

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Ambition to gain power can be a quality in human beings that could make them less trust worthy. ... The ambition that Claudius had for power allowed him to kill anyone in his way. ... Hamlet is so ashamed of his own mother that he can not bare to look at her again. Hamlet can not believe his mother would do such a thing like betray her own husband. ... Ophelia knowing the man she use to love has murdered her own father lose total trust in Hamlet. ...

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In act three he says "By the worst means, the worst, for mine own good, all causes shall give way."... The witches put the first ideas in Macbeths head about becoming the king, they play on his ambition and determination and they leave room for him to not fully understand what they tell him. ... Lady Macbeth is very good at getting her own way, and Macbeth didnt stand a chance of standing up to her! ... It was Macbeths imagination, powered by both ambition and insecurity grew to such a huge size that it took over his rational mind, and rendered him on a path to self destruction. ...

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In other words, Macbeth fears that, by committing such a crime, he will act against his own moral, against his own nature; he will become a traitor who will be pursuit and eternally condemned. Still, regardless of those fears and moved by evil ambition, he kills Duncan and, as a consequence, his fears grow stronger inside of him for most of the play. ... It is true that ambition can move anyone to act against his/her deepest values. ...

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Lead by his wife's poetic persuasion, Macbeth realizes his own "black and deep desires" (I, iv, 48-51). ... Macbeth's ambitions to the throne were not for pure power but for a mix of social recognition and honor. ...

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At the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is introduced as a dominant, controlling, heartless wife with an obsessive ambition to achieve kingship for her husband. ... She begins a slow slide into madness "just as ambition affects her more strongly than Macbeth before the crime, so does guilt plague her more strongly afterward. ... As the play begins, she is a motivated, power-hungry woman with no boundaries, but as the play moves on, Lady Macbeth begins to fall further and further into a guilt-filled world, ending in her own suicide. ...

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Yet as for Lady Macbeth we see that she can no longer cope with the guilt of evil and therefore chooses to take her own life. ... He is said to have "carv'd his own passage " and also reference to his sword that "smok'd with bloody execution" due to the fact heat has been creating after murdering so many people. ... His own selfish drive for excessive ambition has led him on a path of evil which has steadily got rid of all opportunities for him to become great. ...

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Scene II first implants ambition into Macbeth's head well also showing Macbeth's excellent reputation in Duncan's court. ... (Act.1 Sc. v. 60) which orders Macbeth to murder him in there own house. ...

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All of this is in the name of ambition on behalf of her husband. ... Macbeth is a dead butcher, he shows this from his violent nature even when it was directed towards serving his king, and again when he begins the murders of his own planning. ...

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She is obviously the leader and encourages Macbeth to enact his ambition, supporting him along the way. ... Lady Macbeth is focussed with the practical detail, whereas Macbeth is wrapped up in his own guilt. ...

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