Ambition and greed can often hurt those who are not greedy or ambitious, especially those who stand in the way of one's greed and ambition. But in certain cases, ambition and greed can hurt the ambitious and greedy the most out of everyone involved. This principle is clearly displayed in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The dagger that Macbeth used to kill Duncan ended up bringing more pain and grief to Macbeth than it ever could to Duncan. During Act 2, Scene 1, Macbeth is starting to have his character unraveled when faced with the upcoming dilemma of having to kill King Duncan, even though the King just rewarded him with lands and titles. Guided by the ambitious hand of his wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth slips into a soliloquy, giving an allusion as to the potential danger of the weapon in his hand. "I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation" Macbeth (II.i.47-50)
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Macbeth was not granted such an easy death, for Macbeth was cornered by the regret of his murder, and then attempted to appease that regret by killing anyone who had the potential to threaten his royal fate. This did not appease his regret, but ended up rearranging his entire character, changing from a decorated and honorable war hero, into a treacherous and pitiful comrade and push-over. "Ambition heightens the mind’s activity. It suffuses it with energy and it, thus, becomes more unruly and desirous of the goal of the ambition. In fact, the mind itself plays a role in the very genesis of the ambition. For ambition is part of the mind’s staple diet." - Frupta. This medical and psychological perspective on the human mind gives factual evidence that ambition can twist the human psyche into a new personality, differing from the originally intended
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Macbeth was not granted such an easy death, for Macbeth was cornered by the regret of his murder, and then attempted to appease that regret by killing anyone who had the potential to threaten his royal fate. This did not appease his regret, but ended up rearranging his entire character, changing from a decorated and honorable war hero, into a treacherous and pitiful comrade and push-over. "Ambition heightens the mind’s activity. It suffuses it with energy and it, thus, becomes more unruly and desirous of the goal of the ambition. In fact, the mind itself plays a role in the very genesis of the ambition. For ambition is part of the mind’s staple diet." - Frupta. This medical and psychological perspective on the human mind gives factual evidence that ambition can twist the human psyche into a new personality, differing from the originally intended