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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His ambition also triggered a thought of overthrowing the King but he knew that what went around came around. "This even-handed justice commends the ingredience of our poison"d chalice to our own lips." ... Lady Macbeth also knew that her husband's ambition alone was not enough to drive him to the throne. ... She was forced, under her own circumstance, to bring out the worse she could think of. ... Macbeth was able to escape his own ambition and the Witches" prophecy but he was not capable in dodging his wife's influence. ...

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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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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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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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