Every power inclines a person to be corrupt and intoxicates a leader and the more power a person desires, the more corrupt it becomes to acquire it. Too much power and ambition leads to more corruption as seen in Shakespeare’s Macbeth where Macbeth becomes corrupt under the desire of becoming king. Macbeth commits regicide and kills other nobles to attain more power over others. Not only Macbeth, but Lady Macbeth becomes very power-hungry and allows herself to attain masculinity to force Macbeth to become corrupt under the wanting of power. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses symbol such as the three prophecies which leads to the imagery of the dagger that Macbeth imagines to kill King Duncan and the symbol of the apparitions that Macbeth is told
