In Macbeth and Hamlet, the power of ambition leads to madness within Macbeth and Hamlet. …show more content…
There’s no such thing” in which would foreshadow his actual murder (Macbeth 2.1.58-59). Additionally, Macbeth can be seen acting with madness when sending assassins to murder Banquo and Fleance. When Macbeth orders the assassins to murder them, the assassins reply, “We are men, my liege” (Macbeth 3.1.102). Macbeth shows his madness as he orders them like “dogs” which proves his madness and the reordering of Elizabethan Society with chaos at the top. In Hamlet, Hamlet shows madness after finding out that his father was murdered by his uncle, Claudius. He hereafter thinks “to put an antic disposition (frivolous/deliberate playfulness) on” (Hamlet 1.5.192). Hamlet is again seen …show more content…
In Macbeth, Macbeth at first is shocked when hearing from the witches “All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thou shalt be king hereafter” (Macbeth 1.3.53)! Macbeth and Banquo confer on the meaning of this, and Macbeth goes on to say “If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me / Without my stir (Macbeth 1.3.147-148). However, as the play progress’ the “chance” is taken out from Macbeth becoming king, and Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plan to murder King Duncan while asleep, and smear his blood on the guards who will be left to blame. Macbeth however also changes his personal thoughts on “murder”. When planning/executing the murder of King Duncan, he turns hesitant which leads Lady Macbeth to become infuriated and just outraged calling him “a coward in thine own esteem, / Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would,” (Macbeth 1.7.47-48). However, by the end of the play, Macbeth as fully changed into accepting murder and being “fond” of it such as when he orders assassins to murder the wife and children of Macduff in Scotland. In Hamlet, Hamlet’s thought on life and death drastically changes throughout the play over the course of events. At first, he believes “to die, to sleep- / No more--and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is to heir to -