Macbeth Essay

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Macbeth

As Edward George Earle Lytton said:" Ambition has no rest". Ambition is an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power. Macbeth is an impeccable novel, which beholds a lot of interesting morals and ethics. It portrays the most important desire of all people, ambition and what it brings about from good and bad. Shakespeare, with his genius writing showed ambition in many manners throughout the story. Ambition drives people to do things, both good and bad, which they otherwise might not do. Malcolm, Macduff, Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth himself all depicted the reality of ambition in its different behaviors.

Macbeth, the foremost important character in the story was an ordinary family man with limited power. He obtained the title, Thane Of Glamis through hard work and determination. This however changes, when Macbeth encounters three witches and hears their predictions of his future, in which he's going to be entitled The Thane Of Cawdor and then crowned King. Shocked, yet blissful, Macbeth's ambition starts to appear. Hearing of such news, Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to go about and kill the King. This shows that her ambition is far greater than her husband, since she initially took the