Another cause that encouraged his ambition is the use of drugs. ... After he felt the sense of regression because of his misusing of ambition, he knew that he destroyed himself with his own hands. ... Lady Macbeth starts to insult his manhood and names him a coward just to encourage him to kill King Duncan by saying, "Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem- (Mac.1.7.41-43). ... Ambition is not an evil emotion inside a person's heart. ... He used his ambition in the right way by reaching his goal. ...

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She primarily pushes him to do that which he would not be able to do on his own. ... As a result, she passes on her need for power and ambition onto Macbeth. ... The weird sisters raise his ambitions and influence his capabilities. ... Through the ambitions of his wife, the witches' predictions and also his ambition, he has caused his own downfall and demise. ... Macbeth himself creates his own problem once he is pushed by the guilt of his actions. ...

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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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In the end Macbeth's envy and ambition result in failure. ... Secondly Macbeth brings about the path of his own destruction with the weight of guilt. ... He is so hardened by his own crimes that he does not feel for the death of his wife or the apprehension of his own death (Act five scene five, line 9 and 50). ... The letter inspired her envy and ambition for the empire (Jameson). ... Macbeth, under his own power, chose the path in which he completed his destiny. ...

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William Shakespeare through one of his most well known plays portrays a tragic downfall of a king through his ambition and human weakness. ... In the beginning, when Macbeth still depicts his sensitivity and morality, Lady's Macbeth almost forces Macbeth to do the deed calling him a "coward in thine own esteem", mocking him saying, "you durst do it then you were a man," and comparing him to "a baby that milks me." ... It is with her biting tougne that Macbeth is inspired to achieve his ambition in becoming king. ... The reader recognizes the mental weakness Macbeth real...

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She feeds Macbeth's ambition by suggesting the murder of Duncan in order to acquire the throne. ... She says, "Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou has that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem?" ... Thus, she pressures him to commit the act for murder for her own sake and is aware of his ambition to claim the throne. Even though Macbeth knows what is morally right, his own greed and ambition take control over his conscience. ...

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Her ambition and tendency for violence implies she has a masculine personality. ... The play implies women can be just as ambitious and cruel as men, but society doesn't allow them to pursue these desires on their own. Lady Macbeth as her own opinion on how women should behave. ... She pursues her ambition, despite her husband's refusal. ... She is the most ambitious character in Macbeth, but her ambitions are what lead her to a sad demise....

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They lived in their own supernatural world of incorrect judgement and complete corruption. ... The witches are the beginning, ambition the middle and death the end. ... As after listening to the witch's prophecies he doesn't have anything to follow but their own judgement. ... They all help to build on the scale of ambition, which is needed to kill so many people in Macbeth's way. ... This even-handed justice Commends th"ingredience of our poisoned chalice to our own lips." ...

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From this moment on, his ambition captures him and it gets stronger than his loyalty. ... He doubts about how good it is, but later he wont care anymore about it, because his ambition will blind him, and will take him to kill for making the prophecy become truth. From the very beginning Macbeth knows murdering is wrong, so he is afraid to murder the king and he doesn't anyone to know what he is going to do, but Lady Macbeth will convince him that is no longer important weather murdering is good or evil, while he id doing it for his own benefict and success, to get the king's plac...

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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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These acts of betrayal from Macbeth lead to the theme of the novel which is the corrupting power of unchecked ambition; meaning that Macbeth's very ambition drove him to turn to tyranny. His flawed character led to his own tragic death, as well as the death of other characters....

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His desire for position on the throne overrides his respect for the King and his own dignity, leading Macbeth to slaughter him, and murder all those who serve as obstacles in his treacherous pursuit of the throne. ... Thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." ... I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o"erleaps itself and falls on the other- (I.vii.25-28) Macbeth has a conscience that plagues him throughout the story, prohibiting him from forgetting all he knows that is right. ...

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Fatally flawed, though his character was, with "Vaulting ambition" Macbeth is basically a good man. ... She is determined to use her own spirit to inspire him to get rid of everything in his way. ... I think his love for her overcame his conscience and from now on his 'vaulting ambition ' takes over. Once he has killed Duncan, Macbeth realises the personal consequences to his own state of mind which neither he or Lady Macbeth have yet considered. ... They are becoming separated from each other as their own private hells force them apart. ...

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Macbeth thinks about taking the prophecies into his own hands to become King. ... Even though, he believes Duncan is a good man, his ambitions lead him on to thinking about murdering him anyway. Ultimately he decides against murder as the bad consequences far outweigh the good, as he is afraid he will trip over his own ambitions. ... She also says that she would kill her own baby if she did not keep her own word, unlike Macbeth. ... His ambition seems to overpower his conscience and his innocence. ...

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The prophecy awakens his ambition and exposes what is going to happen to him in the future. ... "Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life and live a coward in thine own esteem"(1.7.45-46). ... She gets him to see what she wants him to see, and places her own desires for power into his head. ... Lady Macbeth fuels this ambition. ... "For [my] own good, all causes shall give way. ...

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Macbeth's ambition was driven by the prophecies of the three witches and unlike Banquo, he was willing to do anything to assure that they actually transpire. ... His vaulting ambition was driving him to extreme measures and he could do nothing to abate it. ... Macbeth is a powerful but flawed character and the presence of these evil forces tempt him and plant the seed that leads to his own destruction. ...

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Unlike the typical woman, Lady Macbeth is cold hearted and cruel, putting her own prosperity before the moral integrity of Macbeth. ... No longer being directly manipulated by his wife, Macbeth takes matters into his own hands and orders the executions of many of his close friends and members of his court. Rather than oscillating back and forth between moral integrity and evil ambition, Macbeth lets his paranoia and greed control him as he metamorphoses into a cold blooded killer. ...

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When he realizes that for him to become king of Scotland it would mean he would have to murder Duncane, his own king that he swore to protect and serve. ... She was blinded by her own ambition and then leaps into her own fire of sin. ...

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Suspense has undermined his judgment and brought on him the gambler's fever...The third feature in Macbeth is the quickening of his sensitiveness to the supernatural side by side with the deadening of his conscience...In the reaction from the murder of Banquo the supernatural appearance-which no eye sees but his own-appears more real to him than the real life around him. ... His ambition clouded his once clever mind to where he could not look past the apparitions prophecies. ... However, he did not do this all on his own.. ...

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The second does the same but calls him Thane of Cawdor, a title Macbeth thinks is owned by another person. ... She believes that there is a lack of evil in him to do such a thing, but plenty of ambition to want to be crowned. ... All of the gratitude and thanks towards Macbeth shown by Duncan earlier in the play, now also seem very ironic, because if he is to fulfil his ambition he will have to kill him. ... It starts with Macbeth, on his own, having doubts about what he is about to do. ...

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In Macbeth, Shakespeare develops many themes, such as ambition or the supernatural, which all revolve around the nature of the ever-present evil within the play. ... When he is still hesitant to act, she simply attacks him where it hurts, his courage and manhood: "Art thou afeard/ To be the same in thine own act and valour,/ As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that/ Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,/ And live a coward in thine own esteem" (I.vii.39-43) and "Infirm of purpose!" ...

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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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Just like a woman would do, she begins to put her own interests before the well-being of her husband. ... Lady Macbeth also plays a strong role in his moral corruption. "... the influence of Lady Macbeth (though she too has an inarticulate angel struggling against her own evil), and the instigation of a supernatural power all combine to crush his better nature." ... Lady Macbeth makes a sex weapon in her efforts to spur Macbeth's ambition." ...

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"Macbeth- is, in many ways, a play with a moral, showing us how power and ambition can corrupt a person, and, in the case of Lady Macbeth, how a guilty conscience can be their demise. ... I think that she is not completely evil, and though her ambition drives her to evil behaviour, her intentions are never completely malicious. ...

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