The Theme Of Ambition In Macbeth

Ambition is often the driving force of someone’s life. The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare and one of the most important themes is the amount of ambition. However, there are many emotions that arise throughout the play. “Ambition is the desire for personal achievement. Ambitious persons seek to be the best at what they choose to do for attainment, power, or superiority”. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relation is somewhat an irony throughout the play, because most of it is based on greed and power. Between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, it is hard to determine who “wore the pants” in the relationship but also, who had more ambition to get what it was that they really wanted which was power. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth show examples as a victim of ambition. At first, Lady Macbeth had more ambition in the things that she wanted. From the start, Macbeth shows to her the Weird Sister’s plan about being the king, and she then starts brainstorming ways to get what she wants from the situation. Moments later she comes up with a plan to kill Duncan which would then make room for Macbeth to be royalty. Lady Macbeth acts as Macbeth’s superior while the …show more content…
From the start, he somewhat lacked motivation. He was glad of the things the Weird Sisters saw but thought fate would play out on its own. When Lady Macbeth brainwashed him into killing the king, he was hesitate about going through with the plan the next day. Finally, taking a knife to the king’s heart, his ambition went wild with Lady Macbeth. Guilt eventually swallowed him whole leaving him sorrowful but he could not let it show or he would not be the guy he knew himself to be. He soon goes against everyone including his friends planning murderers with Lady Macbeth as an advocate of the devil. In the beginning, I believe that his intentions were sincere and that he wanted royalty, but not killing everyone and anything in the way to get to the