“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacle” -Carl von Clausewitz. Carl Clausewitz quote can be used to depict Macbeth and how his actions of ambition drove him to what he did to others and how he reached his goal which was to have control of the throne with no obstacles. He not only had ambition but he had greed that played an important role in his actions but also his morals. In William Shakespeare's play “Macbeth” the strong factors of greed and ambition has driven Macbeth and has crushed the moral support of Scotland and ended the lives of many monarchs and innocent people. Macbeth as the effulgent hero who “he unseam’d” (I.ii.23)
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This is shown in no other than the “Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name” (I.ii.17) who we see him “carve out his passage” (I.ii.20) to “unseam” (I.ii.23) the traitor Macdonwald and prove his courage to others around him and wanted to prove to the king that he is loyal. The deeds that Macbeth committed for the king to show his loyalty were rewarded with the thaneship of Cawdor. The three witches, eventually, show the true power of greed and ambition since they “win [him] to harm…with honest trifles” (I.iii.26, 28) as he becomes a unreasonable tyrant trying to take control of his life and his home. The potential of greed and ambition for greatness and power should “Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” (V.ii.18, 20) whose men that “he commands move only in command,Nothing in love” (V.ii.17) . Most of the Scottish monarchs of the time would think themselves above such ambition and need for …show more content…
Macduff has walked a similar path to Macbeth, in killing the traitor of their battles, the true loyalty to their king and country, and in the end they are able to be trusted confidants of their king and powerful monarchs. Macduff’s grief and anger would not be settled by not only by his family's blood of the murderer, rather it would grow inside him until it consumed him which is when the witches, with greed as their partner, they would be able to trick Macduff him unto him his fate and become the incentive of chaos that would “murder sleep” and create disorder and fear throughout Scotland. Macbeth and Macduff were both loyal to their king and yet both of them could be won only by the destruction of their
This is shown in no other than the “Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name” (I.ii.17) who we see him “carve out his passage” (I.ii.20) to “unseam” (I.ii.23) the traitor Macdonwald and prove his courage to others around him and wanted to prove to the king that he is loyal. The deeds that Macbeth committed for the king to show his loyalty were rewarded with the thaneship of Cawdor. The three witches, eventually, show the true power of greed and ambition since they “win [him] to harm…with honest trifles” (I.iii.26, 28) as he becomes a unreasonable tyrant trying to take control of his life and his home. The potential of greed and ambition for greatness and power should “Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” (V.ii.18, 20) whose men that “he commands move only in command,Nothing in love” (V.ii.17) . Most of the Scottish monarchs of the time would think themselves above such ambition and need for …show more content…
Macduff has walked a similar path to Macbeth, in killing the traitor of their battles, the true loyalty to their king and country, and in the end they are able to be trusted confidants of their king and powerful monarchs. Macduff’s grief and anger would not be settled by not only by his family's blood of the murderer, rather it would grow inside him until it consumed him which is when the witches, with greed as their partner, they would be able to trick Macduff him unto him his fate and become the incentive of chaos that would “murder sleep” and create disorder and fear throughout Scotland. Macbeth and Macduff were both loyal to their king and yet both of them could be won only by the destruction of their